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Anilius scytale (Coral Cylinder Snakes)

Synonyms:

Infraspecies

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.396 lbs (633 g)
Litter Size [1]  11

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Reserva Cuzco Amazonico   Peru      
Reserva de la Biosfera de Yasuni Biosphere Reserve 4156313 Ecuador  
Sierra del Divisor Reserve Zone 3652986 Peru      

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Cerrado Brazil No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Amphisbaena anomala (Barbour's Worm Lizard)[2]
Anilius scytale (Coral Cylinder Snakes)[2]
Caecilia gracilis (Slender Caecilian)[3]
Leposternon polystegum (Bahia Worm Lizard)[2]
Tantilla melanocephala (Black-headed Snake (equatoriana)[2]

Predators

Anilius scytale (Coral Cylinder Snakes)[2]

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
2Food habits of Anilius scytale (Serpentes: Aniliidae) in the Brazilian Amazonia, Gleomar F. Maschio; Ana Lúcia da C. Prudente; Francílio da S. Rodrigues; Marinus S. Hoogmoed, Zoologia (Curitiba, Impr.) vol.27 no.2 Curitiba Apr. 2010
3The caecilian amphibian Scolecomorphus kirkii Boulenger as prey of the burrowing asp Atractaspis aterrima Gu ̈ nther: trophic relationships of fossorial vertebrates, David J. Gower, Jens B. Rasmussen, Simon P. Loader and Mark Wilkinson, 2004, African Journal of Ecology, Afr. J. Ecol., 42, 83–87
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