Predation of a Three-lined Snake Atractus trilineatus by a Trinidad Black-backed Snake Erythrolamprus melanotus nesos

Abstract

Predation of a Three-lined Snake Atractus trilineatus by a Trinidad Black-backed Snake Erythrolamprus melanotus nesos in Point Fortin, Trinidad. E. melanotus nesos or Beh Belle Chemin (in Trinidad) or Doctor Snake (in Tobago) is endemic to Trinidad & Tobago (Murphy et al. 2018). A. trilineatus is distributed throughout Trinidad and Tobago, Little Tobago, and the Bocas Islands and is known from Venezuela and northern Brazil (Murphy et al. 2018).