Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Colubridae > Drymarchon > Drymarchon couperi

Drymarchon couperi (Eastern Indigo Snake)

Synonyms: Coluber couperi; Drymarchon corais couperi; Drymarchon kolpobasileus

Wikipedia Abstract

The eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon couperi) is a species of large nonvenomous colubrid snake native to the Eastern United States. It is of note as being the longest native snake species in the U.S.
View Wikipedia Record: Drymarchon couperi

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  15.693 lbs (7.118 kg)
Gestation [1]  78 days
Litter Size [1]  10
Maximum Longevity [1]  26 years

Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name Location  Website 
East Gulf Coastal Plain Subxeric Longleaf Pine Sandhill United States (Mississippi)
Georgia Dry Longleaf Pine - Scrub Oak Sand Woodland United States (Georgia)
Longleaf Pine / Turkey Oak Woodland United States (Florida, Alabama)
West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna (High Terraces Type) United States (Louisiana, Texas)

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
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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