Eastern Indigo Snake
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Drymarchon corais couperi )
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Eastern Indigo Snake
Photograph by Dr. Dan W. Speake, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. License: Public Domain. |
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REPTILE FACTS
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Description
The Eastern Indigo Snake is a large glossy black snake with iridescent blue highlights. The throat and chin are reddish or white. The underside is dull orange and blue gray. Juveniles are black with narrow whitish blue bands.
Other Names
Gopher Snake
Size
Average size 150cm -190cm , maximum recorded 262cm
Environment
hardwood forests, moist hammocks, pine flatwoods, prairies. It often shelters in gopher tortoise burrows.
Food
eats small mammals, birds, lizards, frogs, turtles, eggs, other snakes
Breeding
Clutches that average 10-12 eggs are laid in spring. They hatch after about 80 days. Hatchlings are up to 65cm long.
Range
found in Florida and southeast Georgia.
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Classification
| Class: | Reptilia | | Order: | Squamata (Serpentes) | | Family: | Colubridae | | Genus: | Drymarchon | | Species: | corais couperi | | Common Name: | Eastern Indigo Snake |
Relatives in same Genus
Texas Indigo Snake (D. corais erebennus)
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