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Opportunistic Feeding Behaviour of Xylophis perroteti in Emerald Valley, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India


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1 Herpetology Laboratory, Department of Zoology and Wildlife Biology, Government Arts College, Udhagamandalam 643 002, India
 

Among Indian snakes, ophiophagy behaviour is found in the king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) which regularly feeds on other snakes, and this has also been recorded in many other species like Bungarus fasciatus, Bungarus caeruleus and Calliophis nigrescens. This note documents predation by the Striped narrow-headed snake, Xylophis perroteti on Perrotet's shieldtail snake, Plectrurus perrotetii. Both are endemic species and common in the Nilgiris.
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  • Opportunistic Feeding Behaviour of Xylophis perroteti in Emerald Valley, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India

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P. Santhoshkumar
Herpetology Laboratory, Department of Zoology and Wildlife Biology, Government Arts College, Udhagamandalam 643 002, India
P. Kannan
Herpetology Laboratory, Department of Zoology and Wildlife Biology, Government Arts College, Udhagamandalam 643 002, India

Abstract


Among Indian snakes, ophiophagy behaviour is found in the king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) which regularly feeds on other snakes, and this has also been recorded in many other species like Bungarus fasciatus, Bungarus caeruleus and Calliophis nigrescens. This note documents predation by the Striped narrow-headed snake, Xylophis perroteti on Perrotet's shieldtail snake, Plectrurus perrotetii. Both are endemic species and common in the Nilgiris.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv112%2Fi06%2F1081-1082