page_title: Duberria lutrix
section_title: Diet
hierarchical_section_title: Duberria lutrix / Diet
caption_attribution_description: English: The common slug-eater, Duberria lutrix, found outside Stellenbosch, South Africa.
context_page_description: Duberria lutrix, or the common slug eater, is a small, ovoviviparous, molluscivorous, nonvenomous snake, which is endemic to Africa.
context_section_description: As the name implies, the common slug eater is a specialised predator and feeds on snails and slugs, mostly finding its prey through chemoreception, using its tongue.  It swallows its prey quickly before too much defensive mucus is produced, extracting snails from their shells through the shell opening, or by smashing the shell against a rock while grasping the soft body in its jaws.
caption: Detail of a slugeater head
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