Aesculapius pseudo- coral snake [1] ( lat. Erythrolamprus aesculapii ) - a species of snakes from the family of the same , living in South America .
| Aesculapian pseudo-coral snake |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Infraclass : | Lepidosauromorphs |
| Infrastructure : | Alethinophidia |
| Family: | Smooth Tooth Snakes |
| Gender: | Pseudo-coral snakes |
| View: | Aesculapian pseudo-coral snake |
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| International scientific name |
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Erythrolamprus aesculapii ( Linnaeus , 1758 ) |
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- Coluber aesculapii Linnaeus, 1758
- Coluber agilis Linnaeus, 1758
- Coluber nigrofasciatus Lacépède, 1789
- Coluber atrocinctus Daudin, 1803
- Coluber venustissimus Wied-Neuwied, 1821
- Coluber binatus Lichtenstein, 1823
- Erythrolamprus milberti Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854
- Erythrolamprus intricatus Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854
- Erythrolamprus bauperthuisii
Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854 - Coluber albostulatus cope , 1860
- Erythrolamprus aesculapii dicranta Jan, 1863
- Erythrolamprus aesculapii confluentus Jan, 1863
- Erythrolamprus baileyi Roze, 1959
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Content
The total length reaches 70 cm. The head is small, flattened. The body is slim, cylindrical. The pattern consists of rings of red, black and white color around the body. Red and black rings are always separated by a narrow white stripe. This snake has adopted the color of poisonous coral aspids for protection.
Inhabits humid forests . Active at night. Leads a secretive lifestyle, hides under the leaves. It feeds on lizards , amphisbens and snakes .
This is an egg laying snake. The female lays up to 15 eggs, and buries them under the trees.
It lives in the Amazon basin in Colombia , Venezuela , Ecuador , Peru , Bolivia , Brazil . It is found in Guyana , Argentina and on the island of Trinidat .
- Erythrolamprus aesculapii aesculapii (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Erythrolamprus aesculapii monozona Jan, 1863
- Erythrolamprus aesculapii tetrazona Jan, 1863
- Erythrolamprus aesculapii venustissimus (Wied-Neuwied, 1821) [2]
- ↑ Ananyeva N. B. , Borkin L. Ya. , Darevsky I.S. , Orlov N.L. The five-language dictionary of animal names. Amphibians and reptiles. Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. Yaz., 1988 .-- S. 300 .-- 10,500 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00232-X .
- ↑ The Reptile Database: Erythrolamprus aesculapii
- Boos, Hans EA The Snakes of Trinidad and Tobago. - College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press. xvi + 328 pp., 2001. - ISBN 1-58544-116-3 .
- Wickler, Wolfgang. Mimicry in Plants and Animals. - McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968.
- Jan, 1863: Enumerazione sistematica degli ofidi appartenenti al gruppo Coronellidae . Archivio per la zoologia, l'anatomia e la fisiologia, vol. 2, p. 213-330.
- Linnaeus L , 1758: Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis , ( Coluber æsculapii , new species, p. 220).
