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Regina septemvittata (Queen Snake)

Synonyms: Coluber septemvittatus; Natrix septemvittata; Natrix septemvittata mabila; Nerodia septemvittata

Wikipedia Abstract

The queen snake (Regina septemvittata) is a species of nonvenomous snake, a member of the colubrid family of snakes. It is endemic to North America.
View Wikipedia Record: Regina septemvittata

Attributes

Hibernates [1]  Yes
Litter Size [4]  11
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  19 years
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams
Adult Weight [2]  298 grams
Female Weight [2]  69 grams
Diet [1]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [3]  3 years
Male Maturity [3]  3 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Faxonius juvenilis (Kentucky River Crayfish)[5]
Faxonius obscurus (Allegheny crayfish)[5]
Faxonius propinquus (northern clearwater crayfish)[5]

Predators

Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Hellbender)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Placobdella rugosa[5]
Rhabdias fuscovenosa[5]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, 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
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3de 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
♦ 4A neglected life-history trait: clutch-size variance in snakes, R. Shine and R. A. Seigel, J. Zool. Lond. (1996) 239, 209-223
♦ 5COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report on the Queen Snake Regina septemvittata in Canada, Smith, K. 1999, Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. 1-28 pp
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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