Drymarchon corais (Boie, 1827) is a animal in the Colubridae family, order null, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Drymarchon corais (Boie, 1827)

Drymarchon corais (Boie, 1827)

Drymarchon corais is a large nonvenomous colubrid snake found across much of South America and Trinidad and Tobago.

Family
Genus
Drymarchon
Order
Class
Squamata

About Drymarchon corais (Boie, 1827)

Drymarchon corais, commonly called the indigo snake or yellow-tail cribo, is a nonvenomous snake species that belongs to the Colubridae family. It is a large colubrid. Its known range covers South America, including the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, as well as the islands of Trinidad and Tobago.

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Taxonomy

Animalia Chordata Squamata Colubridae Drymarchon

More from Colubridae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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