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  • Scientific names
    • Coluber ortenburgeri
    • Coluber constrictor mormon
    • Coluber mormon
    • Coryphodon constrictor
    • Zamenis constrictor
    • Bascanium anthicum
    • Bascanion constrictor
    • Coluber constrictor
    • Coluber constrictor
  • English
    • Racer
  • German
    • Schwarznatter

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Recent Observations

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Photos

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What

Southern Black Racer Coluber constrictor priapus

Observer

awebster

Date

May 16, 2012
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Photos

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What

Northern Black Racer Coluber constrictor constrictor

Observer

dnuckols

Date

May 18, 2012

Place

Blue Ridge Parkway, 6 miles north of Roanoke, VA (Google, OSM)

Description

Fresh roadkill laying on west shoulder of road.

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What

Northern Black Racer Coluber constrictor constrictor

Observer

stonewaresnake

Date

May 12, 2012

Description

This wild fast moving snake was about 4 feet long. It had very shiny scales and fled quickly to the bushes when I approached. Because the white markings were only present close to the jaw and it had glossy scales I think it is a northern black racer, though it also could have been an eastern rat snake.

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Description from Wikipedia

Coluber constrictor is a species of non-venomous, colubrid snakes commonly referred to as the eastern racers. They are primarily found throughout the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains, but they range north into Canada, and south into Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. There are currently 11 recognized subspecies.

Source: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/spatial-data. Downloaded March 2011.