FIRST DOCUMENTED RECORD OF AMPHIBIAN PREDATION BY Tropidophis boulengeri (TROPIDOPHIIDAE) IN THE WILD

Jaime Culebras; Francesca N. Angiolani-Larrea

doi:10.22201/fc.25942158e.2025.2.1093

Authors

Jaime Culebras Photo Wildlife Tours http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2211-6605
Francesca N. Angiolani-Larrea Bern University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22201/fc.25942158e.2025.2.1093

Keywords:

diet, natural history, snake, Strabomantidae, Tropidophis

Abstract

We report the first documented case of the Northern Eyelash Boa (Tropidophis boulengeri) predating on an amphibian (Craugastor longirostris) in the wild in Canandé Reserve, Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador. This new record was obtained in a tropical humid forest, contributing new information about the species’ feeding ecology and providing evidence of amphibian predation in the wild.

Author Biographies

Jaime Culebras, Photo Wildlife Tours

President, Photo Wildlife Tours, Quito, Ecuador.
Principal researcher, Fundación Cóndor Andino, Quito, Ecuador.

Francesca N. Angiolani-Larrea, Bern University

PhD candidate Behavioural Ecology Institute of Ecology and Evolution University of Bern Switzerland

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