Habits of five Brazilian snakes with coral‐snake pattern, including a summary of defensive tactics
作者:
Ivan Sazima,
AugustoS. Abe,
期刊:
Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment
(Taylor Available online 1991)
卷期:
Volume 26,
issue 3
页码: 159-164
ISSN:0165-0521
年代: 1991
DOI:10.1080/01650529109360848
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Habitat, activity period, food, predators, and defensive behavior are briefly described for five species of snakes with coral‐snake pattern, sympatric in southeastern Brazil:Micrurus frontalis, M. lemniscatus, Erythrolamprus aesculapii, Oxyrhopus guibei, andSimophis rhinostoma. Defensive behaviors were analyzed by numerical methods in order to evaluate the degree of similarity between these species. The similarity between defensive displays is supposed to be due either to phylogenetic affinity or to mimetic convergence.
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