Photo of a El Oro Snail Eater (Dipsas bobridgelyi)
Photo: Juan C. Sánchez-Nivicela, CC BY-NC, via iNaturalist
Venom
Not venomous
Constrictor
Non-constrictor
Type
Colubrid
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Dipsas
Continents
South America
Countries
2
How common
Rare

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About

El Oro Snail Eater (Dipsas bobridgelyi) is a non-venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Ecuador, Peru. It lives in habitats such as tropical montane forest, montane rainforest, cloud forest, mountain forest and 3 more. Rare: recorded in only 2 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.

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