🐍Eastern indigo snake
Drymarchon couperi – gatunek niejadowitego węża z rodziny połozowatych (Colubridae), naturalny dla południowo-wschodniej części Stanów Zjednoczonych. Jest odnotowany jako najdłuższy rodzimy gatunek USA. Epitet gatunkowy couperi nadany został dla uczczenia pamięci Jamesa Hamiltona Coupera.
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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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