Palmers snail shells

Palmers snail shells

  • Scientific name:
    Dipsas palmeri

Animalia Kingdom Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Family: Colubridae Genre: dipsas

Palmers snail shells

  • Dipsas palmeri

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.


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