Photo of a Fiddle-string Snake (Imantodes cenchoa)
Photo: Jenifer Segura, CC BY-NC, via iNaturalist

Fiddle-string Snake

Imantodes cenchoa

Venom
Not venomous
Constrictor
Not documented
Type
Colubrid
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Imantodes
Continents
South America, North America
Countries
17
How common
Common

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About

Fiddle-string Snake (Imantodes cenchoa) is a non-venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and 12 more. It lives in habitats such as tropical rainforest, tropical moist forest, tropical lowland forest, tropical montane forest and 55 more. Common: recorded in 1005 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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