Photo of a Southeastern Scarlet Snake (Pseudoboa serrana)
Photo: Herpetonautas, CC BY-NC, via iNaturalist

Southeastern Scarlet Snake

Pseudoboa serrana

Venom
Not venomous
Constrictor
Not documented
Type
Colubrid
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Pseudoboa
Continents
South America
Countries
1
How common
Rare
Diet
Eats other snakes

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About

Southeastern Scarlet Snake (Pseudoboa serrana) is a non-venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Brazil. It is known to eat other snakes. It lives in habitats such as tropical rainforest, tropical moist forest, evergreen forest, coastal 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.

Related snakes

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