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Coluber constrictor (Eastern Racer; Northern black racer)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Coluber constrictor is a species of nonvenomous, colubrid snake, endemic to North America and Central America. Eleven subspecies, including the nominotypical subspecies, are recognized, which as a group are commonly referred to as the eastern racers.
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Infraspecies

Coluber constrictor anthicus (Buttermilk Racer)
Coluber constrictor constrictor (Northern black racer)
Coluber constrictor etheridgei (Tan racer)
Coluber constrictor flaviventris (Eastern yellow-bellied racer)
Coluber constrictor foxii (Blue Racer)
Coluber constrictor helvigularis (Brownchin Racer)
Coluber constrictor latrunculus (Blackmask racer)
Coluber constrictor mormon (Western yellow-bellied Racer)
Coluber constrictor oaxaca (Mexican racer)
Coluber constrictor paludicola (Everglades Racer)
Coluber constrictor priapus (Southern black racer)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  110 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore
Gestation [3]  51 days
Hibernates [2]  Yes
Litter Size [4]  9
Maximum Longevity [5]  10 years
Speed [1]  2.30 MPH (1.028 m/s)
Male Maturity [3]  1 year 1 month

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Emblem of

Ohio

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Alaria marcianae[9]
Macracanthorhynchus ingens[9]
Ochetosoma ellipticum <Unverified Name>[9]
Ochetosoma kansense <Unverified Name>[9]
Ophidascaris ashii <Unverified Name>[9]

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External References

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Citations

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♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4A neglected life-history trait: clutch-size variance in snakes, R. Shine and R. A. Seigel, J. Zool. Lond. (1996) 239, 209-223
♦ 5de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 6Resources of a Snake Community in Prairie-Woodland Habitat of Northeastern Kansas, Henry S. Fitch, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, Wildlife Research Report 13: 83-98 (1982)
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 8Spermophilus tridecemlineatus, Donald P. Streubel and James P. Fitzgerald, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 103, pp. 1-5 (1978)
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0