Almendáriz, A., Barriga, R., & Rivadeneira, C.D. 2017. Feeding behavior of Helicops pastazae Shreve 1934 (Serpentes, Colubridae, Dipsadinae) in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Herpetology Notes, 10, 449-451.
https://www.biotaxa.org/hn/article/viewFile/29848/29350
This is a short note, so there is no abstract. But it's an easy read if you ever thought, "Hey, I wonder if snakes will eat plecos." But a confounding detail is that that the snake (with pleco in mouth) was captured in a drift net. So did the snake feed on fish trapped in the net? The authors speculate that the snakes prey upon the plecos routinely (without the help of human nets).
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