rim rock crowned snake
Étymologie
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Locution nominale
modifierrim rock crowned snake \Prononciation ?\
- Espèce de serpents de la famille des Colubridae, de nom scientifique Tantilla oolitica.
Scientists do not know what the rim rock crowned snake eats, but centipedes and other small invertebrates are presumed to constitute a major part of its diet.
— (J. Whitfield Gibbons, Michael E. Dorcas, Snakes of the Southeast, 2005, page 53)It may have an interrupted pale collar, and male rim rock crowned snakes possess two basal hooks on each hemipenis.
— (Alan Tennant, Snakes of North America: Eastern and Central Regions, 2003, page 43)