''Dipsas variegata'', the variegated snail-eater, is a

snake Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more j ...

found in

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sout ...

. It is reported to feed almost exclusively on tree

snail A snail is, in loose terms, a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class G ...

s and slugs. '' Dipsas trinitatis'', the Trinidad snail-eater from Trinidad and Tobago, has sometimes been considered a subspecies of ''Dipsas variegata'' (''Dipsas variegata trinitatis'').

Reproduction

* Oviparous

References

Dipsas Reptiles of Bolivia Snakes of Brazil Reptiles of French Guiana Reptiles of Guyana Reptiles of Peru Reptiles of Suriname Reptiles of Venezuela Reptiles described in 1854 Taxa named by André Marie Constant Duméril Taxa named by Gabriel Bibron Taxa named by Auguste Duméril {{Dipsadinae-stub