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Drymarchon melanurus (Blacktail Cribo)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Middle American indigo snake (Drymarchon melanurus), also known as the blacktail cribo, is a large, nonvenomous, colubrid snake species found in the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. In addition to the nominotypical subspecies, it has one recognized subspecies, D. m. erebennus commonly known as the Texas indigo snake.
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Infraspecies

Drymarchon melanurus erebennus
Drymarchon melanurus melanurus
Drymarchon melanurus orizabensis
Drymarchon melanurus rubidus
Drymarchon melanurus unicolor

Attributes

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

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♦ 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