List of snakes of Trinidad and Tobago

This is a list of snakes which have been recorded in Trinidad and Tobago. Forty-seven species have been recorded - forty-four in Trinidad and twenty-one in Tobago, making the snake population of this area by far the most diverse in the Caribbean. Many of these species are South American, most of which are present in Venezuela.

Trinidad and Tobago consists of two main islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and several smaller islands. The "Bocas Islands", which lie between Trinidad and Venezuela, in the "Bocas del Dragón" ("Dragons' Mouth"), consist of Chacachacare, Monos, Huevos and Gaspar Grande. Several smaller islands lie off Trinidad, but snakes have only been recorded on one of them, Caledonia Island. Snakes have only been recorded on one island off Tobago, Little Tobago.

Only four species are venomous - two Coral Snakes ("Micrurus" spp.), the Fer-de-lance ("Bothrops atrox") and the Bushmaster ("Lachesis muta"). The Common Coral is found on one of the Bocas Islands (Gaspar Grande). No venomous snakes occur in Tobago.

Family Leptotyphlopidae

Family Boidae

ubfamily Colubrinae

Notes

ee also

* Snake
* Ecology of Trinidad and Tobago
* List of birds of Trinidad and Tobago
* List of Butterflies of Tobago

References

External links

* [http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/1/10 Medicinal and ethnoveterinary remedies of hunters in Trinidad] from "BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine" (BioMed Central).