Texas Indigo Snake
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Drymarchon corais erebennus )
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Texas Indigo Snake
Photograph by LA Dawson. Some rights reserved. |
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TEXAS INDIGO SNAKE FACTS
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Description
The Texas Indigo Snake is mainly black with shiny iridescent scales. The underside is gray or may be a salmon pink color. The chin and sides of the head are reddish-brown. The Indigo Snake is active during the day and forages for anything small enough to eat including other large snakes.
Size
about 1.8m, although grow to 2.4m long
Environment
The Texas Indigo snake is found in grassland, coastal sand dunes, lightly vegetated areas near permanent water, Shelters in 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
southern Texas, and south into Mexico as far Veracruz.
Notes
The Texas Indigo Snake is non-venomous and not usually aggressive, but may bite vigorously and release a foul smelling musk from its rear if handled.
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Classification
| Class: | Reptilia | | Order: | Squamata (Serpentes) | | Family: | Colubridae | | Genus: | Drymarchon | | Species: | corais erebennus | | Common Name: | Texas Indigo Snake |
Relatives in same Genus
Eastern Indigo Snake (D. corais couperi)
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