World Species : Erythrolamprus epinephelus (Night Ground Snake)

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Erythrolamprus epinephelus (Night Ground Snake)

Contents

Synonyms: Liophis epinephelus

Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	82 grams

Gestation ^[1]	10 months
Litter Size ^[1]	6

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Chocó-Darién moist forests	Colombia, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Costa Rican seasonal moist forests	Costa Rica	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Eastern Cordillera real montane forests	Ecuador, Colombia, Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Eastern Panamanian montane forests	Colombia, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests	Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Isthmian-Pacific moist forests	Costa Rica, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Magdalena-Urabá moist forests	Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Northwestern Andean montane forests	Colombia, Ecuador	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Peruvian Yungas	Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sinú Valley dry forests	Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
South American Pacific mangroves	Colombia, Panama, Ecuador	Neotropic	Mangroves
Southern Mesoamerican Pacific mangroves	Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama	Neotropic	Mangroves
Talamancan montane forests	Costa Rica, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Ucayali moist forests	Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Western Ecuador moist forests	Colombia, Ecuador	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
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
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 Species	Common 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