Photo of a Amazon Puffing Snake (Spilotes sulphureus)
Photo: Yantza Farm, Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador, CC BY-NC, via iNaturalist

Amazon Puffing Snake

Spilotes sulphureus

Venom
Not venomous
Constrictor
Constrictor
Type
Colubrid
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Spilotes
Continents
South America
Countries
9
How common
Common

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About

Amazon Puffing Snake (Spilotes sulphureus) is a non-venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana and 4 more. It lives in habitats such as tropical rainforest, tropical moist forest, tropical lowland forest, tropical montane forest and 40 more. Common: recorded in 162 places on iNaturalist.

Where it lives

Native range

Habitats

Estimated from where this snake is recorded and what kind of snake it is - not a confirmed habitat survey.

Related snakes

Stay safe: a photo or a web page can never tell you for certain that a snake is harmless. Keep your distance, never handle a wild snake, and get medical help straight away after any bite.