Pacific Longtail Snake
Enulius flavitorques
- Venom
- Not venomous
- Constrictor
- Not documented
- Type
- Colubrid
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Enulius
- Continents
- North America, South America
- Countries
- 10
- How common
- Common
About
Pacific Longtail Snake (Enulius flavitorques) is a non-venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and 5 more. It lives in habitats such as tropical rainforest, tropical moist forest, tropical lowland forest, tropical montane forest and 19 more. Common: recorded in 156 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
- Montane Woodland
- Mountain Forest
- Mountain Slopes
- Highlands
- Plateaus
- Leaf Litter
- Fallen Logs
- Mesoamerican Rainforest
- Central American Cloud Forest
- Central American Dry Forest
- Yucatán Tropical Forest
- Costa Rican Rainforest
- Panamanian Rainforest
Related snakes
- Roatan Long-tailed Snake Enulius roatanensis
- Guanaja Longtail Snake Enulius bifoveatus
- Mexican Longtail Snake Enulius oligostichus
- Zhao's Mountain Stream Snake Opisthotropis zhaoermii
- Atractus dapsilis
- de Silva’s Rough-Side Snake Aspidura desilvai
- Hognose Lineate Blackhead Apostolepis lineata
- Tantilla stenigrammi
- Semau Island groundsnake Stegonotus lividus
- Thomas' Racer Pseudalsophis thomasi
- Erythrolamprus rochai
- Tantilla gottei
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.