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Several smaller islands lie off Trinidad, but snakes have been recorded on only one of them, Caledonia Island. Snakes have been recorded on one island off Tobago, Little Tobago . Four species are venomous : two coral snake species ( Micrurus spp. [ note 1 ] ), the fer-de-lance ( Bothrops atrox ) and the South American bushmaster ( Lachesis muta ).
This list of reptiles of Trinidad and Tobago is derived from The Reptile Database which includes a total of 116 species of reptiles recorded on Trinidad, The reptiles of Trinidad are made up of 55 species of snakes, 49 species of lizards, 3 species of crocodilians and 14 species of turtles. [1]
Macajuel, Boa Constrictor Trinidad, Tobago, Bocas Recorded on the islands of Monos and Gaspar Grande in the Bocas Corallus ruschenbergerii: Cascabel Dormillon; Cook's Tree Boa Trinidad, Tobago Epicrates cenchria maurus: Rainbow Boa Trinidad, Tobago, Bocas Reported from the island of Chacachacare in the Bocas, but has not been confirmed with a ...
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Forty-seven species of snake have been recorded in Trinidad and Tobago, making the snake population of this area the most diverse in the Caribbean. Forty-four of these snake species are found in Trinidad and twenty-one in Tobago. Many of these species are South American, most of which are present in Venezuela. Trinidad and Tobago consists of ...
Trinidad and Tobago is home to about 99 species of terrestrial mammals. About 65 of the mammalian species in the islands are bats (including cave roosting, tree and cavity roosting bats and even foliage-tent-making bats; all with widely differing diets from nectar and fruit, to insects, small vertebrates such as fish, frogs, small birds and rodents and even those that consume vertebrate blood).
The boa constrictor is a large snake, although it is only modestly sized in comparison to other large snakes, such as the reticulated python, Burmese python, or the occasionally sympatric green anaconda, and can reach lengths from 3 to 13 ft (0.91 to 3.96 m) depending on the locality and the availability of suitable prey. [16]
Micrurus circinalis, the Trinidad coral snake or Trinidad northern coral snake, is a species of snake of the family Elapidae. [ 2 ] The snake is found in Trinidad and Venezuela.