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Masticophis flagellum (Red Coachwhip)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Masticophis flagellum is a species of nonvenomous colubrid snake, commonly referred to as the coachwhip or the whip snake, which is endemic to the United States and Mexico. Seven subspecies are recognized, including the nominotypical subspecies.
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Infraspecies

Masticophis flagellum cingulum (Sonoran Coachwhip)
Masticophis flagellum flagellum (Eastern coachwhip)
Masticophis flagellum lineatulus (Lined Coachwhip)
Masticophis flagellum piceus
Masticophis flagellum ruddocki (San Joaquin Coachwhip)
Masticophis flagellum testaceus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  14.295 lbs (6.484 kg)
Gestation [1]  61 days
Litter Size [1]  10
Maximum Longevity [2]  20 years

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

Prey / Diet

Baiomys taylori (northern pygmy mouse)[3]
Blarina carolinensis (Southern Short-tailed Shrew)[4]
Scaphiopus couchii (Couch's Spadefoot)[5]
Tadarida brasiliensis (Brazilian free-tailed bat)[6]
Xerospermophilus tereticaudus (round-tailed ground squirrel)[7]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ochetosoma georgianum <Unverified Name>[8]
Sparganum proliferum <Unverified Name>[8]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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
♦ 2de 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
♦ 3Baiomys taylori, Bruce D. Eshelman and Guy N. Cameron, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 285, pp. 1-7 (1987)
♦ 4Blarina carolinensis, Timothy S. McCay, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 673, pp. 1–7 (2001)
♦ 5Anurans as prey: an exploratory analysis and size relationships between predators and their prey, L. F. Toledo, R. S. Ribeiro & C. F. B. Haddad, Journal of Zoology 271 (2007) 170–177
♦ 6Tadarida brasiliensis, Kenneth T. Wilkins, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 331, pp. 1-10 (1989)
♦ 7Spermophilus tereticaudus, Kristina A. Ernest and Michael A. Mares, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 274, pp. 1-9 (1987)
♦ 8Gibson, 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