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Cryptophis nigrostriatus (Black-striped snake)

Synonyms: Hoplocephalus nigro-striatus; Hoplocephalus nigrostriatus; Rhinoplocephalus nigrostriatus; Suta nigrostriatus; Unechis durhami

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  88 grams
Litter Size [2]  6

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site   Queensland, Australia

Prey / Diet

Carlia fusca (Indonesian Brown Skink Carlia)[2]
Ctenotus robustus (Robust Ctenotus, Striped Skink)[2]
Ctenotus spaldingi (Spalding's skink)[2]
Lygisaurus curtus (Translucent Litter-skink)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Cryptophis boschmai (Carpentaria whip snake)2
Suta suta (Curl Snake, Myal 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
♦ 2Food Habits and Reproductive Biology of Small Australian Snakes of the Genera Unechis and Suta (Elapidae), RICHARD SHINE, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 307-315, 1988
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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