Natural history of the South American water snake Helicops leopardinus (Colubridae: Hydropsini) in the Pantanal, Central Brazil

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 274-279

  Ávila, Robson W ^a   Ferreira, Vanda L ^b   Arruda, Janaína A O ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; COLUBRIDAE; GYMNOTIFORMES; HELICOPS; HYLIDAE; NERODIA; PISCES; SERPENTES;

EID: 33845290237     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1670/113-05N.1     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. ACHAVAL, F., AND A. OLMOS. 2003. Anfibios y Reptiles del Uruguay. Graphis Impresora, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2. AGUIAR, L. F. S., AND M. DI-BERNARDO. 2004. Diet and feeding behavior of Helicops infrataeniatus (Serpentes: Colubridae: Xenodontinae) in Southern Brazil. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 39:7-14.
3. ALBOLEA, A. B. P. 1998. Padrões de atividade em serpentes não peçonhentas de interesse médico: Helicops modestus (Colubridae: Xenodontinae) e Liophis miliaris (Colubridae: Xenodontinae) e sua relação com a epidemiologia. Unpubl. master's thesis. University of Guarulhos, São Paulo, Brazil.
4. BORGES, R. C., AND A. F. B. ARAÚJO. 1998. Seleçã;o de hábitat em duas espécies de jararaca (Bothrops moogeni Hoge e B. neuwiedi (Wagler) (Serpentes: Viperidae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 58: 591-601.
5. BRASIL. 1992. Ministério da Agriculture e Reforma Agrária. Secretaria Nacional de Irrigação. Departamento Nacional de Meteorologia. Normais Climatológicas (1961-1990). Brasilia, Brazil.
6. BRITSKI, H. A., K. Z. S. SILIMON, AND B. S. LOPES. 1999. Peixes do Pantanal. Manual de Identificação. Brasília: Embrapa-SPI; Embrapa-CPAP, Corumbá, Brazil.
7. BROWN, G. P., AND P. J. WEATHERHEAD. 1999. Demography and sexual size dimorphism in Northern Water Snakes, Nerodia sipedon. Canadian Journal of Zoology 77:1358-1366.
8. CAMPOS-DA-PAZ, R. 2003. Gymnotidae (Naked-Black Knife Fishes). In R. E. Reis, S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris Jr. (eds.), Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America, pp. 483-486. EDIPUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
9. CEI, J. M. 1993. Reptiles del Noroeste, Nordeste y Este de la Argentina. Herpetofauna de las Selvas Subtropicales, Puna y Pampas. Monografic XIV. Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali Torino, Torino, Italy.
10. DUELLMAN, W. E. 1978. The biology of an equatorial herpetofauna in Amazonian Ecuador. Miscellaneous Publications of Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 65:1-352.
11. FORD, N. B., AND D. F. FORD. 2002. Notes on the ecology of the South American water snake Helicops angulatus (Squamata: Colubridae) in Nariva Swamp, Trinidad. Caribbean Journal of Science 38:129-132.
12. GREENE, H. W. 1997. Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature. University of California Press, Berkeley.
13. GREGORY, P. T. 2004. Sexual dimorphism and allometric size variation in a population of Grass Snakes (Natrix natrix) in Southern England. Journal of Herpetology 38:231-240.
14. HOOGMOED, M. S. 1993. The herpetofauna of floating meadows. In P. E. Ouboter (ed.), Freshwater Ecosystems of Suriname, pp. 199-213. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
15. KEOGH, J. S., W. R. BRANCH, AND R. SHINE. 2000. Feeding ecology, reproduction and sexual dimorphism in the colubrid snake Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia in southern Africa. African Journal of Herpetology 49:129-137.
16. LEITÃO-DE-ARAŨJO, M., AND L. A. M. ELY. 1980. Incidência Sazonal de Helicops carinicaudus (Jan, 1865) e Philodryas patagoniensis (Girard, 1857) no estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil (Ophidia, Colubridae). Iheringia (série Zoologia) 55:87-106.
17. MARQUES, O. A. V., AND G. PUORTO. 1998. Feeding, reproduction and growth in the Crowned Snake Tantilla melanocephala (Colubridae), from southeastern Brazil. Amphibia-Reptilia 19:311-318.
18. MARQUES, O. A. V., AND I. SAZIMA. 2004. Historia natural dos répteis da Estação Ecológica Juréia-Itatins. In O. A. V. Marques and W. Duleba (eds.), Estação Ecológica Juréia-Itatins. Ambiente físico, Flora e Fauna, pp. 257-277. Editora Holos, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
19. MARQUES, O. A. V., A. ETEROVIC, AND I. SAZIMA. 2001. Serpentes da Mata Atlântica. Guia ilustrado para a Serra do Mar. Editora Holos, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
20. MARTINS, I. A., AND M. R. DUARTE. 2003. Physalaemus nattereri. Predation. Herpetological Review 34:233.
21. MARTINS, M., AND M. E. OLIVEIRA. 1998. Natural history of snakes in forests of the Manaus region, Central Amazonia, Brazil. Herpetological Natural History 6:78-150.
22. PIANKA, E. R. 1973. The structure of lizard communities. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 4:53-74.
23. PRADO, C. P. A., M. UETANABARO, AND C. F. B. HADDAD. 2002. Description of a new reproductive mode in Leptodactylus (Anura, Leptodactylidae), with a review of the reproductive specialization toward terrestriality in the genus. Copeia 2002:1128-1133.
24. RABB, G. B., AND H. MARX. 1973. Major ecological and geographic pattern in the evolution of colubroid snakes. Evolution 27:69-83.
25. RIVAS, J. A., AND G. M. BURGHARDT. 2001. Understanding sexual dimorphism in snakes: wearing the snake's shoes. Animal Behavior 62:F1-F6.
26. ROSSMAN, D. A. 1970. Helicops Wagler. In J. A. Peters, R. Donoso-Barros, and B. Orejas-Miranda (eds.), Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata. Part. I. Snakes, pp. 122-125. United States National Museum Bulletin 297, Washington, DC.
27. ROZE, J. A. 1966. La taxonomia y zoogeografia de los ofidios de Venezuela. Ediciones de la Biblioteca. Ciências Biológicas 2:1-362.
28. SAZIMA, I., AND M. MARTINS. 1990. Presas grandes e serpentes jovens, quando os olhos são maiores que a boca. Memórias do Instituto Butantan 52:73-79.
29. SAZIMA, I., AND C. STRÜSSMANN. 1990. Necrofagia em serpentes brasileiras: exemplo e provisões. Memórias do Instituto Butantan 50:463-468.
30. SHINE, R. 1989. Ecological causes for the evolution of sexual dimorphism: a review of the evidence. Quarterly Review of Biology 64:419-461.
31. -. 1991. Intersexual dietary divergence and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in snakes. American Naturalist 138:103-122.
32. -. 1993. Sexual dimorphism in snakes. In R. A. Seigel and J. T. Collins (eds.), Snakes. Ecology and Behavior, pp. 49-78. McGraw-Hill, New York.
33. -. 1994. Sexual size dimorphism in snakes revisited. Copeia 1994:326-346.
34. SILVA, J. S. V., AND M. M. ABDON. 1998. Delimitação do Pantanal Brasileiro e suas sub-regiões. Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira 33:1703-1717.
35. SIMPSON, E. H. 1949. Measurement of diversity. Nature 163:688.
36. SORIANO, B. M. A. 1997. Caracterização climática de Corumbá-MS. Embrapa-CPAP, Corumbá, Brazil.
37. STRÜSSMANN, C., AND I. SAZIMA. 1993. The snake assemblage of the Pantanal at Poconé, western Brazil: faunal composition and ecological summary. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 28:157-168.
38. VITT, L. J. 1980. Ecological observations on sympatric Philodryas (Colubridae) in northeastern Brazil. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 34:87-98.