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Saurophagy_snake_database_v1.1_2026 Kevin Anderson Cirilo da Silva (24727471) Ricardo Lourenço-de-Moraes (19846554) Marcelo Nogueira de Carvalho Kokubum (3266466) Behavioural ecology Animal behaviour Animal diet and nutrition PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTIONS SQUAMATA body size scaling MACROECOLOGY Saurophagy <p dir="ltr">A global database of snake–lizard predation events (saurophagy), compiling 3,222 records assembled from SquamataBase, GloBI (iNaturalist citizen science) and a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature (2020–2025). The dataset covers 658 predatory snake species (224 genera, 14 families, with Colubridae subfamilies discriminated) and 897 lizard prey species (279 genera, 36 families), distributed across 182 countries, 6 biogeographic realms and 12 biomes. Each row represents an independent predation event, with taxonomy synchronized against The Reptile Database (via letsRept), geographic coordinates (1,884 unique localities), biome and realm assignments, reference year, and original source. Morphological and ecological traits for predators and prey - maximum SVL and total length, maximum and minimum elevation, hatchling and maximum body mass, microhabitat, diet, venomous status, and dentition type - were integrated from SquamBase (Meiri, 2024) and ReptTraits (Oskyrko et al., 2024), with source attribution per species. Duplicate GloBI records were removed; 2,147 unique predator × prey pairs are available for trait-based analyses. The file contains three worksheets: dataset metadata, main data, and trait sources. License: CC BY 4.0.</p> 2026-09-28T20:38:52Z Dataset Dataset 10.6084/m9.figshare.34001505.v3 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Saurophagy_snake_database_v1_2026/34001505 CC BY 4.0