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| SILVA,Karina Maria Pereira da; ALMEIDA-SANTOS,Selma Maria de; BERTANI,Rogério. |
| ABSTRACT Centipedes are part of the diet of several snake species of the genus Bothrops. However, reports on predation of centipedes by snakes are normally incomplete, and important data for natural history studies as the species identification and size of the prey are rarely published. The aim of this work was to report the presence of the centipede Scolopendra viridicornis in the digestive tract of the Amazon pit viper B. atrox. The snake specimen is an immature female from Aripuanã, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, having a 623 mm snout-vent length. The centipede is an adult Scolopendra viridicornis, estimated to be 190 mm long, and found in the snake's stomach. The success in preying on this large and potentially dangerous centipede could be explained by... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/report |
Palavras-chave: Diet; Ectothermic prey; Scolopendra. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0044-59672017000200171 |
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| Guizze,Samuel P.G.; Knysak,Irene; Barbaro,Katia C.; Karam-Gemael,Manoela; Chagas-Jr,Amazonas. |
| ABSTRACT Studies related to centipede feeding and predatory behavior are rare in the literature, and are limited to observations made during fieldwork. Furthermore, they lack descriptions of prey capture. We conducted a laboratory experiment using South American specimens of Scolopendra viridicornis Newport, 1844 (n = 5), Otostigmus tibialis Brölemann, 1902 (n = 5), and Cryptops iheringi Brölemann, 1902 (n = 5), as well as 13 different kinds of prey, to map and describe their predatory behavior. The analysis of video images (65 hours of recordings) resulted in 15 behavioral categories that describe foraging, prey capture, feeding, and cleaning habits. Almost all observations (95%) concluded with the centipede killing the prey. Although we witnessed that a... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Cryptops; Ethogram; EthoSeq; Otostigmus; Scolopendra. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702016000600300 |
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