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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 ).
Leptophis stimsoni, commonly known as the grey lora or the Trinidad upland parrot snake, is a small species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago .
Leptophis stimsoni Harding, 1995 – Trinidad upland parrot snake [21] Leptophis urostictus ( W. Peters , 1873) [ 22 ] Nota bene : A binomial authority or trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Leptophis .
The Colubrinae are a subfamily of snakes within the family Colubridae. It includes numerous genera, and although taxonomic sources often disagree on the exact number, the Reptile Database lists 717 species in 92 genera as of September 2019. [2] It is the second largest subfamily of colubrids, after Dipsadinae. [2]
The species is native to tropical South America including Trinidad and Tobago. [3] [4] Distribution ... "Studies on Neotropical Colubrinae: II.
Despite their slow appearance, crocodiles are very fast over short distances, even out of water. However, these 2 species are considered waifs to the island. Meaning, that Trinidad and Tobago is not in their natural distribution. With these two species likely coming in from the surrounding waterways of Venezuela. Crocodylus acutus (Cuvier, 1807) VU
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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).