A new long, thin snake
crawls out of one of Earth's biodiversity hotspots
November 2012. A new
species of ‘Blunt-headed vine snake' has been found in Ecuador on the western slopes of the Andes .
Field and laboratory work by a group of zoologists led by Omar Torres-Carvajal from Museo de Zoología QCAZ, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, has resulted in the discovery of a new species of blunt-headed vine snake from the Chocoan forests in north-westernEcuador Andes .
Field and laboratory work by a group of zoologists led by Omar Torres-Carvajal from Museo de Zoología QCAZ, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, has resulted in the discovery of a new species of blunt-headed vine snake from the Chocoan forests in north-western
Blunt-headed vine snakes
live in an area comprising Mexico
and Argentina , and are
different from all other New World snakes in
having a very thin body, disproportionately slender neck, big eyes, and a blunt
head. They live in trees and hunt frogs and lizards at night. The new species
described by Torres-Carvajal and his collaborators was named Imantodes
chocoensis and increases the number of species in this group of snakes to
seven.
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