Photo of a Plee's Tropical Racer (Mastigodryas pleii)
Photo: Gerardo Chavarri, CC BY, via iNaturalist

Plee's Tropical Racer

Mastigodryas pleii

Venom
Not venomous
Constrictor
Not documented
Type
Colubrid
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Mastigodryas
Continents
South America, North America
Countries
4
How common
Common

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About

Plee's Tropical Racer (Mastigodryas pleii) is a non-venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Brazil, Colombia, Panama, Venezuela. It lives in habitats such as tropical rainforest, tropical moist forest, tropical lowland forest, tropical montane forest and 30 more. Common: recorded in 113 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

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