Thomas M. Luhring^1,2 and Zachary D. Ross^1,3

¹Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Drawer E, Aiken, South Carolina 29802, USA
²University of Missouri, Division of Biological Sciences, 105 Tucker Hall, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
³New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Summary: Gastrophryne carolinensis are toxic to many predators, which will often refuse to eat them, and few firsthand accounts of G. carolinensis predation exist, possibly because of this toxicity . . . to our knowledge, this is the first confirmed firsthand observation of a Thamnophis s. sauritus depredating a G. carolinensis.

SREL Reprint #3212