Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Colubridae > Masticophis > Masticophis mentovarius

Masticophis mentovarius (Neotropical Whip Snake)

Synonyms:

Infraspecies

Masticophis mentovarius centralis
Masticophis mentovarius mentovarius
Masticophis mentovarius striolatus
Masticophis mentovarius suborbitalis
Masticophis mentovarius variolosus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  14.295 lbs (6.484 kg)
Gestation [1]  77 days
Litter Size [1]  13
Maximum Longevity [1]  20 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary IV 122962 Belize
El Parque Estatal Lagunas de Yalahau Wetland Reserve   Yucatan, Mexico  
Maya Multiple Use Area 1156412 Guatemala  
Palo Verde National Park II 46190 Costa Rica  
Shipstern Nature Reserve IV 20453 Belize

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
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

Adenomera andreae (Lowland Tropical Bullfrog)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Erythrolamprus reginae (Royal Ground Snake)1
Leptodeira annulata (Banded Cat-eyed Snake)1

Predators

Buteogallus urubitinga (Great Black-Hawk)[3]
Leucopternis albicollis (White Hawk)[3]

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
♦ 2Hábitos alimentares de serpentes em Espigão do Oeste, Rondônia, Brasil, Paulo Sérgio Bernarde & Augusto Shinya Abe, Biota Neotrop., vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 167-173 (2010)
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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