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Colubrid snake species involved in the ophiophagy incident: [A] Stegonotus muelleri and its regurgitated prey, [B] Oxyrhabdium modestum. Scale bar: 50 mm.

Colubrid snake species involved in the ophiophagy incident: [A] Stegonotus muelleri and its regurgitated prey, [B] Oxyrhabdium modestum. Scale bar: 50 mm.

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Figure 3. Multiple injuries of Oxyrhabdium modestum: [A] most visible...
First Record of Ophiophagy in Philippine Groundsnake Stegonotus muelleri on the Non-banded Philippine Burrowing Snake Oxyrhabdium modestum
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  • Feb 2023
The Philippine groundsnake Stegonotus muelleri is a non-venomous colubrid widely distributed in the Mindanao Pleistocene Aggregate Island Complex. Despite the species’ regular sightings and occurrence in field surveys, sparse is known about its natural history, including its dietary habits. Although ophiophagy is frequent among elapids, Stegonotus...
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... other active and extremely agile individuals that quickly evade when approached, this individual remained on its ~ 1.5 m aboveground perching site with limited movement and little restraint during voucher collection. On the next day, we found a dead, regurgitated prey item (Figure 2) with multiple body injuries: bite marks on its body, most visible on the parietal scale, and dorsal body scales in approximately one-fourth anterior part of its body already peeled ( Magdua and Sanguila: Ophiophagy in Philippine Groundsnake Philippine Journal of Science Vol. 152 No. 2, April 2023 trail along stream banks, whereas some are commonly encountered coiled on fern fronds and small branches of saplings ( Sanguila et al. 2016Sanguila et al. , 2021. ...