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The eastern indigo snake was first described by John Edwards Holbrook in 1842. For many years the genus Drymarchon was considered monotypic with one species, Drymarchon corais, with 12 subspecies, until the early 1990s when Drymarchon corais couperi was elevated to full species status according to the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, in their official names list.
The adult can reach 1.8 metres (5 ft 11 in) long. It has a red head, tail and belly. The back is dark blue or black in colour, and it usually has a large blue [2] or white stripe on each flank. [5] The snake, especially when juvenile, is often confused with the pink-headed reed snake (Calamaria schlegeli) as they share similar habitat and ...
Other common names for P. fasciatus include blue-tailed skink (for juveniles) and red-headed skink (for adults). It is technically appropriate to call it the American five-lined skink to distinguish it from the African skink Trachylepis quinquetaeniata (otherwise known as five-lined mabuya) or the eastern red-headed skink to distinguish it from its western relative Plestiodon skiltonianus ...
At first, it can be olive green, blue-gray, or even brown, but after it sheds its skin for the first time, it becomes the characteristic bright green. [9] The dorsal coloration can also vary depending on location: bluish in Kansas , olive-tinted light brown in southeastern Texas, and bronze in northern Wisconsin .
Small snake, dark gray with bright yellow collar. Belly is bright yellow with rows of black spots. [4] Indigo snake (Drymarchon couperi). Large, thick-bodied snake, almost entirely black with reddish facial highlights. [3] Corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus). Adults are bright orange, with darker orange dorsal saddles and side blotches.
What Snake Is That? A Field Guide to the Snakes of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains. (with 108 drawings by Edmond Malnate). New York and London: D. Appleton Century Company. Frontispiece map + viii + 163 pp. + Plates A-C, 1-32. (Thamnophis sirtalis, pp. 124–126 + Plate 24, figures 70–72). Linnaeus C (1758).
A new snake species, the northern green anaconda, sits on a riverbank in the Amazon's Orinoco basin. “The size of these magnificent creatures was incredible," Fry said in a news release earlier ...
All 39 snake taxa [1] that are known to naturally occur in Indiana [2] [3] ... Blue racer: northern 2/3: common: minimal Coluber constrictor priapus: Southern black ...