🐍Eastern indigo snake
Die Östliche Indigonatter (Drymarchon couperi) ist eine ungiftige amerikanische Schlangenart aus der Familie der Nattern (Colubridae). Die Art gilt als die längste Schlange der USA und wurde 1842 von dem US-amerikanischen Zoologen John Edwards Holbrook erstbeschrieben. Sie ist nach James Hamilton Couper benannt, der Exemplare zur Beschreibung der Art sammelte. Der deutsche Name der Art kommt von den schillernden Bauchschuppen, die bei besonderen Lichtverhältnissen schwärzlich-violett glänzen.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2007.
- Body mass
- 1.36 kg
- Body length
- 2.63 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 26 years
Everything we know about the Eastern indigo snake
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass1.36 kgmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length2.63 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan26 yearsmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousNoReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Eastern indigo snake yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classSquamata
- ›familyColubridae
- ›genusDrymarchon
- ›speciesDrymarchon couperi
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- genusDrymarchon
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- genusDrymarchon
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