Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Colubridae > Erythrolamprus > Erythrolamprus epinephelus

Erythrolamprus epinephelus (Night Ground Snake)

Synonyms: Liophis epinephelus

Infraspecies

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  82 grams
Gestation [1]  10 months
Litter Size [1]  6

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Barro Colorado Island Natural Monument III   Panama  
La Amistad International Park National Park II 541617 Panama, Costa Rica  
La Reserva de la Planada   Colombia      
Rara Avis Rainforest Reserve 3163 Costa Rica

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Prey / Diet

Atelopus varius (Veragoa stubfoot toad)[2]
Craugastor fitzingeri (Fitzinger's Robber Frog)[2]
Phyllobates terribilis (golden poison frog)[2]
Rhinella margaritifera (South American Common Toad)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Erythrolamprus reginae (Royal Ground Snake)1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
2Anurans as prey: an exploratory analysis and size relationships between predators and their prey, L. F. Toledo, R. S. Ribeiro & C. F. B. Haddad, Journal of Zoology 271 (2007) 170–177
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0