Title
Ptyas korros (Javan rat snake). Diet
Author(s)
Platt, Steven G.; Dingqi, Rao; Li, Fenglian; Ma, Xiaohui; Rainwater, Thomas R.
Published
2017
Publisher
Herpetological Review
Abstract
Ptyas korros is a large (total length [TL] to 2680 mm) colubrid occurring from southern China and Taiwan, southward to Indochina, Malaysia, and parts of Indonesia, and west to India (Assam) and Bangladesh
(Das 2010. A Field Guide to the Reptiles of Thailand and Southeast Asia. Asia Books Co., Ltd., Bangkok. 376 pp.). Despite being common in many habitats, including agricultural lands (Cox et al. 2010. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Thailand and South-east Asia. Asia Book Co., Ltd., Bangkok. 144 pp.), the ecology of P. korros remains poorly known (Lin et al. 2012. Curr. Zool. 58:820–827), and in particular there appears to be a notable paucity of information concerning diet. Although general accounts suggest P. korros is a dietary generalist that consumes a wide variety of small vertebrate prey such as frogs, lizards, birds, and mammals (Cox 1991. The Snakes of Thailand and Their Husbandry. Krieger Publishing Co., Malabar, Florida. 526 pp.; Das, op. cit.; Chan-ard et al. 2015. A Field Guide to the Reptiles of Thailand. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 314 pp.), empirical reports based on the analysis of stomach contents or feces appear lacking in the scientific literature.
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