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SpeciesColubridae
Reptiles

🐍Eastern racer

Coluber constrictor Linnaeus, 1758

Coluber constrictor, parfois appelée Couleuvre agile, est une espèce de serpents de la famille des Colubridae.

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≈ 1/39th of your weight
Also called
Coluber constrictor, Racer
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2013.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
1.59 kg
Body length
1.91 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
10 years
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Everything we know about the Eastern racer

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Body mass
1.59 kgrecord 0.61 kg · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
1.91 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
10 yearsrecord 10 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Foraging mode
ACT
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
No
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Snout–vent length
0.77 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
1.6 Laverage
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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 racer yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusColuber
  6. ›speciesColuber constrictor
Full lineage
  1. superorderLepidosauria
  2. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  3. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  4. genusColuber
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  12. genusColuber
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راسرة شرقية (ar), Schwarznatter (de), Coluber constrictor (fr), Coluber constrictor (it), hardloper (nl), Corredora-azul (pt) … and 16 more languages
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A yellow bellied racer (298f8c5d 1a05 443f be82 d38fe6bb2575)Black racer, NPSPhoto (9257805782)
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