New snake species discovered in another snake’s belly

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  1. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It is appropriately called a Dinner snake. Wait, I am not kidding. This snake was found in the belly of a Coral Snake. It has unique features for a snake.

    So who heard of the dinner snake prior to now?
    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/...ditorial::add=Channel_20190103::rid=862590304

     
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    Abstract
    A new genus and species of colubroid snake is described from the isolated highlands of western Chiapas. This enigmatic little snake possesses a unique suite of characters that defies placing it in any known genus and clearly distinguishes it from all known genera. Several of the most unusual features include subcaudals undivided throughout the length of the tail and a simple hemipenis completely adorned with calyces and having a sulcus spermaticus that remains unbifurcated until the apical portion of the organ. Neither of these characteristics is known for any other colubroid of the Western Hemisphere. Consideration of morphology places the new snake in the Dipsadidae and suggests thatAdelphicos,Atractus,Geophis, andChapinophisare among its closest relatives.
    Copyright 2018 Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
    https://bioone.org/journals/Journal...rious-Case-of-a-Consumed/10.1670/18-042.short

    Hell of a way to be discovered, eh.
     
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    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yes indeed.
     
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    If thats the snake they ate in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, those are actually just baby snakes.
     
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