Oviposition and Early Growth of Unfed Neonates of the Mountain Wolf Snake Lycodon ruhstrati ruhstrati (Squamata: Colubridae)

Gerrut NORVAL; Jean-Jay MAO; Hsin-Pin CHU

doi:10.3105/1345-5834(2007)26[49:OAEGOU]2.0.CO;2

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Gerrut NORVAL,^1,* Jean-Jay MAO,² Hsin-Pin CHU³

¹1 Applied Behavioural Ecology & Ecosystem Research Unit, Department of Nature Conservation, UNISA, P
²2 Department of Natural Resources, National I-Lan University, No. 1, Shen-Non Rd., Sec. 1, I-Lan 260
³3 Taitung Animal Propagation Station. 30, 27 Community, Binlang, Beinan, Taitung, Taiwan 954, R.O.C

^** Corresponding author. Tel: +886–5–225–0058; Fax: +886–5–225–0047; E-mail address: gerrutnorval507@yahoo.com.

Abstract

A captive female mountain wolf snake (Lycodon ruhstrati ruhstrati) from Taiwan laid ten eggs (length=35.22 mm, width=10.08 mm, and mass=2.5 g on average) on 26 August 2002. Eight of these eggs hatched after 49 days, and six hatchlings survived. During the first month, these surviving neonates (snoutvent length [SVL]= 156.8 mm, tail length [TL]=56.9 mm, and body mass [BM]=2.2 g on average at hatching), left unfed, grew in average by 10.4% in SVL and 8.5% in TL, but lost 13.8% of BM. Another Taiwanese female, collected on 18 February 2006 as a road-kill, had eight eggs in the oviducts.

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Gerrut NORVAL, Jean-Jay MAO, and Hsin-Pin CHU "Oviposition and Early Growth of Unfed Neonates of the Mountain Wolf Snake Lycodon ruhstrati ruhstrati (Squamata: Colubridae)," Current Herpetology 26(1), 49-51, (1 June 2007). https://doi.org/10.3105/1345-5834(2007)26[49:OAEGOU]2.0.CO;2

Accepted: 1 June 2007; Published: 1 June 2007

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