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Provedor de dados: | 76
País: | Brazil
Título: | Feeding ecology in the small neotropical amphisbaenid Amphisbaena munoai (Amphisbaenidae) in southern Brazil
Autores: | Bernardo-Silva,Jorge S.; Von-Mühlen,Eduardo M.; Di-Bernardo,Marcos; Ketterl,Jochen.
Data: | 2006-12-01
Ano: | 2006
Palavras-chave: | Amphisbaena munoai; Diet; Feeding behavior; Natural history; Southern Brazil.
Resumo: | We analyzed the alimentary tract of 66 specimens of Amphisbaena munoai Klappenbach, 1969 from the Serra do Sudeste, state of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. Forty specimens (60.6%) had prey items in their gut. The diet consisted mainly of small invertebrate prey, such as termites, insect larvae and ants. The most abundant prey item was termites, found in 62.5% of the non empty stomachs. The high number of individual prey items in the majority of stomachs, the small size of the regular prey items, and the absence of gut content in specimens of A. munoai kept alive for about two days, indicate that this species forages very frequently. The predominance of fossorial prey items and the occasional records of nomadic ants lead us to suggest that A. munoai usually feeds underground, and occasionally forages on the surface.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0073-47212006000400014
Editor: | Museu de Ciências Naturais
Relação: | 10.1590/S0073-47212006000400014
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Iheringia. Série Zoologia  v.96 n.4 2006
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess