Reptilia · Squamata
Cyclocorus lineatusReinhardt, 1843
Reinhardt's Lined Snake
Photograph by Mark Bulahao, CC BY, via iNaturalist
A burrowing, meat-eating lizard from the Oriental region, reaching 549 mm nose to tail.
Reptilia › Squamata › Cyclocoridae › Cyclocorus
- Grows to
- 549mm
- greatest recorded
- Eats
- Carnivorous
- Lives
- Fossorial
- Weighs up to
- 37.11g
- greatest
What is known
29 sourced facts, each taken from a named scientific dataset. How to read these.
Cited from a dataset unless a row is marked otherwise.
Standing in the world
- Still living
- Extant
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
- Status assessed · the year the Red List last looked
- 2021
The animal itself
- Limbs
- None
- Pupil
- Round
- Fangs
- At the back of the mouth
Size
- Length snout to vent · greatest recorded
- 453mm18 in
- Length snout to vent · adult female mean
- 453mm18 in
- Length nose to tail · greatest recorded
- 549mm21.5 in
- Female length · mean, nose to tail
- 549mm21.5 in
- Body mass · greatestcomputed
- 37.11g1.3 oz
503 mm total length (Feldman et al. 2016), Meneses et al. 2022 (highly improbable figures: 33-53 mm SVL…), Dela Cruz 2023 (1 female 453 mm SVL, 96 mm tail length)
snakes only in this source
computed from length by a family-level allometric equation, not weighed
How it lives
- Diet
- Carnivorous
- Where it lives
- Fossorial
- Habitat
- Forest, Wetlands
- Biome
- Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
- Region
- Oriental
- Mainland or island
- Found only on islands
- Highest it lives · above sea level
- 1400m
- Range size
- 145,341km²
usually earthworms, a cane toadlet killed one when it ate it (Sarmiento and Vargas 2021)
(Sarmiento and Vargas 2021), "Individuals were found actively crawling under leaf litter near stream banks, on a forest trail, and under rocks." (Meneses et al. 2022), "commonly found under leaf litter or fallen logs" (Dela Cruz 2023)
IUCN (0 to 1400), 300-939 (Meneses et al. 2022)
Breeding
- Reproduction
- Oviparous
- Average clutch
- 4.5
- Eggs or young per clutch
- 4eggs
Feldman et al. 2015, Dela Cruz 2023
midpoint of the reported range — Weinell, Paluh, Singh, Blackburn, and Brown, 2019, Herpetol. Rev., 50:164-165
Dela Cruz 2023; n = 1
Naming and history
- Suborder
- Serpentes
- Infraorder
- Alethinophidia
- Subspecies
- Cyclocorus lineatus lineatus (REINHARDT 1843) Cyclocorus lineatus alcalai LEVITON 1967
- Described by
- Reinhardt
- Moved to another genus · since it was first described
- Yes
- Described in
- 1843
- Type locality
- Philippines
Keeping one
5 ft 11 in × 5 ft 11 in × 3 ft 9 in(181 × 181 × 113 cm)
Minimum length × width × height, for one animal. Bigger is always better. Substrate at least 9 in (23 cm) deep.
The standard sizes ground-dwelling species at 4 × 4 × 2.5 times snout-vent length.
Burrows, so substrate deep enough to dig in matters as much as floor area.
Mindestanforderungen an die Haltung von Reptilien (Sachverständigengutachten), German Federal Ministry for Nutrition, Agriculture and Forestry, Animal Welfare Division, 10 January 1997. The standard states these floor areas are recommendations rather than binding limits.
From this animal’s own snout-vent length of 18 in (453 mm), at 4 × 4 × 2.5 times it, following the German federal welfare standard — how this is worked out.
No preferred body temperature has been recorded for Reinhardt's Lined Snake. Rather than repeat a number from a care sheet, this page leaves it out.
Feeding
A prey item should be no wider than the space between the animal's eyes.
Widely used across reptile husbandry references. The stated reason is that the gap approximates the width of the throat, so wider prey is associated with impaction. This is established practice, not a measurement.
5kJ per day
Worked out for an animal of 37 g, the heaviest recorded for Reinhardt's Lined Snake — so it is the top of the range, not a figure for a particular animal. Weigh yours and the number will be lower.
An upper estimate, not a feeding target, and not veterinary advice. The equation covers only what an animal burns staying alive, so a growing, gravid or recovering animal needs more — and it was measured on wild animals, which move far more than one in an enclosure. Body condition and a vet who knows the species are what a feeding decision should rest on. Where this comes from.
What nobody knows
These are not gaps in our research. No scientific dataset records them for this species — and saying so is information you cannot get from a reference that simply leaves a field out.
- — Length snout to vent · adult male mean
- — Length snout to vent · adult mean
- — Length nose to tail · adult male mean
- — Length nose to tail · adult mean
- — Largest female · snout to vent
- — Largest male · snout to vent
- — Largest female · shell length
- — Largest male · shell length
- — Hatchling length · snout to vent
- — Hatchling length · nose to tail
- — Largest juvenile · snout to vent
- — Largest juvenile · shell length
- — Egg length
- — Egg width
- — Body mass · a typical adult
- — Body mass · adult female, mean
- — Body mass at hatching
- — Longest recorded life
- — Preferred body temperature · chosen in a laboratory gradient
- — Body temperature when active · measured in the wild
- — Eats arthropods
- — Eats vertebrates
- — Eats plant matter
- — How it hunts
- — Active
- — How the young develop
- — Gestation or incubation
- — Mean clutch · smallest reported
- — Mean clutch · largest reported
- — Clutches in a year
- — Clutches a year · fewest
- — Clutches a year · most
- — First breeds from · youngest recorded
- — First breeds by · oldest recorded
- — Hatchling length · smallest recorded
- — Hatchling length · largest recorded
- — Age at first breeding · female
- — Mature from · youngest recorded
- — Mature by · oldest recorded
- — Size at maturity · smallest recorded
- — Size at maturity · largest recorded
- — Venomous
- — Body temp in the wild · lowest mean recorded
- — Body temp in the wild · highest mean recorded
- — Colour on the back
- — Pattern on the back
- — Sex decided by
- — Population trend
- — Red List criteria
- — Active season · shortest recorded
- — Active season · longest recorded
- — Density · lowest recorded
- — Density · highest recorded
- — Home range · largest recorded
- — Active in
- — Lowest it lives · above sea level
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Cite this page
The Reptile & Amphibian Encyclopedia (2026). Cyclocorus lineatus. Retrieved 2026-09-08, from https://www.allanglescreatures.com/species/cyclocorus-lineatus
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