Five new species of snail-eating snake, from a group of snakes affectionately known to scientists as “goo-eaters,” have been discovered by a team working in …
Five new species of snail-eating snake, from a group of snakes affectionately known to scientists as “goo-eaters,” have been discovered by a team working in Ecuador and Peru.
The scientists—from institutions in Ecuador and the U.S., including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History—found the striking new snakes during a four-year expedition in rainforest and dry tropical forest habitats.
The five news species are all nonvenomous, tree-dwelling snakes belonging to the genera Dipsas and Sibon. They raise the number of known snail-eating snakes to 75, according to a new study published last month in the journal ZooKeys…
