Eastern Indigo Snake🐍

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SpeciesColubridae
Reptiles

🐍Eastern indigo snake

Drymarchon couperi (Holbrook, 1842)

동부쪽뱀(영어: eastern indigo snake)은 뱀과 쪽뱀속의 대형 무독성 뱀의 일종이다. 미국 동남부에 서식한다. 북미에서 자연적으로 서식하는 뱀중 가장 크게 자라는 뱀이다. 최대 크기는 263cm 까지 자란다고 기록되었으며, 비공식 적으로 더 큰 사이즈도 존재했었다고 한다. 동부쪽뱀은 서식지 파괴로 인해서 미국 어류 및 야생동물국 (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) 로 부터 1978년부터 미국내 수출, 수입을 금지하는 종 목록으로 등재되었다. 동부쪽뱀은 다른 뱀들과 달리 먹이를 조여서 먹지 않고 힘으로 제압해서 먹는다. 같은 동족인 뱀을 주식으로 하여 먹는다. 방울뱀이나 같은 서식지에 사는 독사의 독에대한 면역을 가지고 있어 독사도 즐겨 먹는다.

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≈ 1/45th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2007.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
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
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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 mass
1.36 kgmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

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

Maximum lifespan
26 yearsmaximum recorded
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Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Venomous
No
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
1.4 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 indigo snake yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusDrymarchon
  6. ›speciesDrymarchon couperi
Full lineage
  1. superorderLepidosauria
  2. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  3. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  4. genusDrymarchon
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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. genusDrymarchon
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Drymarchon couperi (fr), Індигова змія східна (uk), Drymarchon couperi (sv), Drymarchon couperi (vi), Östliche Indigonatter (de), Drymarchon couperi (es) … and 9 more languages
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