''Siphlophis compressus'' the tropical flat snake, is a snake found in tropical

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and South America and Trinidad and Tobago. It feeds on small

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s, other snakes, small

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s and probably on frogs and nestling birds, as well as the eggs of nesting birds and lizards.

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Siphlophis Reptiles of Trinidad and Tobago Reptiles of Guyana Reptiles described in 1803 Snakes of South America Taxa named by François Marie Daudin {{Dipsadinae-stub