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Hi,
I am hoping someone can help me as I am trying to find a picture of a snake that is said to eat the poison dart frogs that my son is doing a report on. I can only find its name and it is the scientific one. The name that is given is the Leimadophis Epinephelus. I have hunted for two days now with no luck. He would really like to have a photo and a common name as he is in the third grade.
Thanks for your time and help.
Robyn

But from what I can tell the common name for Leimadophis epinephelus is "frog eating snake". That probably doesnt' help much... Here's the description I found- Leimadophis epinephelus, COPE 1862, green with red transversal bands.

You had trouble finding a pic because this snake is moonlighting under two different scientific names. The other one, seemingly more commonly used, is Liophis epinephelus.

This site has a photo:

http://200.110.105.66/publnew/anbi/anfi7.htm

Here's a crappy translation of the site, since it's in Spanish

Distribution: One knows the West Venezuela and the Eastern Mountain range Colombia until the north Peru between the 2600 to 3300 m.s.n.m. This species is but frequent in flat earth and not in hills. Recognition: Well-known like "sabanera serpent", this species is easy to differentiate from the tierrera serpent (To crassicaudatus) so that the head is distinguished of the neck, the eyes are great with round pupil, the tail is long and to the bothered being it flattens the body. The coloration of the body is greenish coffee, with spots dark coffee on the flanks; towards half of the body including the tail it presents/displays a thin lateral line of dark coffee. The belly is of yellowish color cream. Unlike A. crassicaudatus this species is very fast and when attacked feeling it flees quickly; if this near a marsh does not vacillate escaping swimming. It reaches sizes up to 70 cm. Biology: It is fed on frogs that hunt during the hours of the day. The females put eggs underneath fallen trunks. Micro habitat: Terrestrial species, inhabits the humedales and the edge of gorges
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Found this site...

elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/fauna/sci-Reptile.html

Has one photo. That is one pretty little snake! This site has alot of scientific names. Scroll down to 'liophis epinephelus'

Hope this helps. Those frogs are very pretty and interesting!

Hi,
Thank you to all who took time to look up my son's elusive snake. I never had that much trouble finding a species. Once again Thank You all.