Banded Snail Sucker
Tropidodipsas fasciata
- Venom
- Not venomous
- Constrictor
- Not documented
- Type
- Colubrid
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Tropidodipsas
- Continents
- North America
- Countries
- 2
- How common
- Recorded in 31 places on iNaturalist
About
Banded Snail Sucker (Tropidodipsas fasciata) is a non-venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Guatemala, Mexico. It lives in habitats such as tropical rainforest, tropical moist forest, tropical lowland forest, tropical montane forest and 23 more. Recorded in 31 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.
- Tropical Rainforest
- Tropical Moist Forest
- Tropical Lowland Forest
- Tropical Montane Forest
- Montane Rainforest
- Cloud Forest
- Tropical Dry Forest
- Subtropical Dry Forest
- Evergreen Forest
- Pine Forest
- Scrub Forest
- Thorn Forest
- Montane Woodland
- Mountain Forest
- Scrubland
- Desert
- Hot Desert
- Semi-Desert
- Desert Scrub
- Mountain Slopes
- Highlands
- Plateaus
- Chihuahuan Desert
- Mesoamerican Rainforest
Related snakes
- Tricolor Snailsucker Tropidodipsas tricolor
- Poppyfield Snailsucker Tropidodipsas papavericola
- Zweifel's Snail-eating Snake Tropidodipsas zweifeli
- Philippi's Snail-eating Snake Tropidodipsas philippii
- Terrestrial Snail Sucker Tropidodipsas sartorii
- Fischer's Snail-eating Snake Tropidodipsas fischeri
- Western Snail-eating Snake Tropidodipsas annulifera
- Tropidodipsas repleta
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.