Shaw's dark ground snake (Erythrolamprus melanotus), also known commonly as Shaw's black-backed snake, and in Spanish as candelilla, guarda caminos, and reinita cazadora, is a species of snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species is native to northern South America.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Black-backed Snake being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Dendrophidion bivittatus
- Xenochrophis vittatus
- Coniophanes piceivittis
- Amphiesma stolatum
- Thamnosophis epistibes
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Erythrolamprus
- Species
- Erythrolamprus melanotus
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