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Diet and intraspecific competition in the snake Tretanorhinus nigroluteus. December 2021.
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... in southeastern Mexico where it inhabits rivers and coastal lagoons (Chávez- López et al. 2015. Am. J. Life Sci. 3:76-84). At first, one of the snakes caught the fish by the middle part of the body (Fig. 1) while the other snake tried to remove it, unsuccessfully. After a while, the snake managed to engulf the anterior part of the fish (Fig. 2), supporting the observation of Villa (1970, op. cit.), that T. nigroluteus swallows its prey starting from the head. To our knowledge, this is the first record of P. mexicana being consumed by T. ...Similar publications
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