Photo of a Striped glasstail (Urotheca guentheri)
Photo: Bob Meewis, CC BY-NC, via iNaturalist

Striped glasstail

Urotheca guentheri

Venom
Not venomous
Constrictor
Not documented
Type
Colubrid
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Urotheca
Continents
North America
Countries
4
How common
Recorded in 30 places on iNaturalist

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About

Striped glasstail (Urotheca guentheri) is a non-venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama. It lives in habitats such as tropical rainforest, tropical moist forest, tropical lowland forest, tropical montane forest and 10 more. Recorded in 30 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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