Animalia Kingdom Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Family: Colubridae Genre: dipsas
Main features:
• They present other modifications in the jaws that seem to be designed to keep small slippery and quick prey in the mouth.
• Snakes of the dipsas genus are nocturnal with arboreal habits.
• Light brown dorsal and ventral background color with various degrees of fine black mottling and with 32-41 circular brown to blackish spots with white edges that are longer than the intervening spaces in the first half of the body.
Reproduction:
• Oviparous species.
• Dipsadines have the slender body of tree snakes can reduce size of the cavity where the eggs are carried.
• This species lays 6 to 8 eggs and its incubation time is 27 to 45 days.
Feeding:
• Their diet consists mainly of snails and slugs.
Distribution:
• Tungurahua, Morona Santiago, Napo, Orellana, Pastaza, Sucumbíos and Zamora Chinchipe.