Spotting

Description:

I saw this little snake under a lodge in the Amazon Rainforest in the Tambopata province of Western Peru. It posed for pictures for a little while before escaping into a hole that I was told it dug earlier.

Habitat:

Amazon Rainforest, burrows

Notes:

It looks like it mimics the coral snake, but it doesn't have stripes throughout its whole body.

1 Species ID Suggestions

Scott Frazier 10 years ago

Tschudi's false coral snake

Oxyrhopus melanogenys iNaturalist.org · Tschudi's False Coral Snake (Oxyrhopus melanogenys),observed bykirstie on July 19, 2012

3 Comments

LarryGraziano 10 years ago

Great job.

jagetsy 10 years ago

Thanks for the tip! It looks like Clelia clelia but the stripes are down the body a bit. Apparently Clelia (mussarana) snakes change color as they age but I haven't found another picture that looks quite like this one. It's probably a juvenile and the adult looks different.

LarryGraziano 10 years ago

Sure looks like a type of Clelia snake. I am no expert. Nice spotting!

Spotted by
jagetsy

Madre de Dios, Peru

Spotted on Jul 10, 2013
Submitted on Aug 28, 2013