#1801 · 🦎 reptiles

Central American Indigo Snake

Drymarchon melanurus

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Chris Harrison · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © victor_jimenez_arcos · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © geomamba · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Rodrigo Arrazola · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Jan Meerman · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Jan Meerman · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Texas, US:© Sydney Gerig · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Santa María Huatulco, Oax., México:© Rodrigo Arrazola · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Texas, US:© CCFarquhar · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Reynosa, Tamps., México:© Daniel García · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Middle American indigo snake ( Drymarchon melanurus ), also known as the blacktail cribo , is a large, nonvenomous, colubrid snake species found in the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. In addition to the nominotypical subspecies, it has one recognized subspecies, D. m. erebennus commonly known as the Texas indigo snake.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,266iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).