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Recursos alimentares e local de forrageio de três espécies de Helicops wagler, 1830 (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) na Amazônia Oriental, Brasil
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2012) TEIXEIRA, Cássia de Carvalho; MONTAG, Luciano Fogaça de Assis; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4936237097107099; COSTA, Maria Cristina dos Santos; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1580962389416378
Close related species that coexist in the same environment with similarities in the use of resources are potentially competitors. Therefore, it is expected that they present differentiation in some of the main axes of their ecological niche. Helicops angulatus, H. hagmanni and H. polylepis are abundant species found in the state of Pará, Eastern Amazonia, and they are sintopic sometimes, what suggests that these species present some variation in their diet or in the foraging place. This work aimed to verify variations in the composition of the diet, the width and overlap of food niche, as well as variations in the foraging place, based on ecomorphological characteristics of the consumed fishes of three species of the genus Helicops in the Eastern Amazonia, Pará state. We verified that the three species of snake possess similar diet composition, however, the proportions in that the items are consumed differ between them. Helicops angulatus is the most generalist species and H. hagmanni the most specialist. The food niche overlap between the three species was intermediate. In agreement with ecomorphological data of the fishes consumed by H. angulatus, H. hagmanni and H. polylepis, it can be concluded that these species forage in the same place, that would be the medium and superior strata of the water column, especially in the lentic waters of the margins. The coexistence of those species can be favored by the abundance of the consumed resources.