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Diadophis punctatus (Ringneck Snake)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Diadophis punctatus, commonly known as the ring-necked snake or ringneck snake, is a harmless species of colubrid snake found throughout much of the United States, central Mexico, and southeastern Canada. Ring-necked snakes are secretive, nocturnal snakes, so are rarely seen during the day time. They are slightly venomous, but their nonaggressive nature and small, rear-facing fangs pose little threat to humans who wish to handle them. They are best known for their unique defense posture of curling up their tails, exposing their bright red-orange posterior, ventral surface when threatened. Ring-necked snakes are believed to be fairly abundant throughout most of their range, though no scientific evaluation supports this hypothesis. Scientific research is lacking for the ring-necked snake, an
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Infraspecies

Diadophis punctatus acricus (Key Ringneck Snake)
Diadophis punctatus amabilis (Ringneck snake)
Diadophis punctatus arnyi (Prairie Ringneck Snake)
Diadophis punctatus docilis
Diadophis punctatus dugesii
Diadophis punctatus edwardsii (Northern Ringneck Snake)
Diadophis punctatus modestus (San Bernardino Ringneck Snake)
Diadophis punctatus occidentalis (Northwestern Ringneck Snake)
Diadophis punctatus pulchellus (Coralbelly Ringneck Snake)
Diadophis punctatus punctatus (Ringnecked snake)
Diadophis punctatus regalis (Regal ringnecked snake)
Diadophis punctatus similis (San Diego Ringneck Snake)
Diadophis punctatus stictogenys (Mississippi Ringneck Snake)
Diadophis punctatus vandenburgii (arnyi) (Attributes)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  161 grams
Gestation [1]  42 days
Litter Size [1]  4
Male Maturity [1]  1 year 1 month

Predators

External References

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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
2Jorrit 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.
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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