North American Racer
Coluber constrictor
Summary 7
Coluber constrictor is a species of nonvenomous, colubrid snake, endemic to North America and Central America. Eleven subspecies, including the nominotypical subspecies, are recognized, which as a group are commonly referred to as the eastern racers.
distribution 8
Continent: Middle-America North-America
Distribution: S Canada (incl. Saskatchewan)
USA (Washington, Oregon, California, Illinois, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, Idaho, Utah, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, S New Hampshire, S Vermont, S Maine; Tennessee [latrunculus: HR 31: 54])
E/SE Mexico (Yucatan, Durango), Belize, N Guatemala
constrictor: S Maine to NE Alabama.
anthicus: S Arkansas, Louisiana, E texas.
etheridgei: WC Louisiana, adjacent Texas.
flaviventris: Montana, W North Dakota, east to Iowa and south to Texas, SW Louisiana; Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oklahoma; isolated populations in New Mexico and Texas.
foxii: S Ontario, NW Ohio to E Iowa and SE Minnesota; Wisconsin; an isolated population in Menominee Co., Michigan (intergrades with flaviventris).
helvigularis: Lower Chipola and Apalachicola R. valleys in Florida panhandle and adjacent Georgia.
latrunculus: SE Louisiana north along the east side of the Mississippi to N Missouri.
oaxacae: S Texas and Tamaulipas to C Veracruz; isolated records in Nuevo León, Coahuila, Durango, Colima, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Guatemala.
Type locality: œMexico. Seems to intergrade with flaviventris in New Mexico and Texas. Holotype: MNHN.
paludicola: Everlglades, SE Florida, upper Florida Keys, E Florida. Holotype: USNM
priapus: SE states and north and west in Mississippi valley to S Indiana and SE Oklahoma, Lower Florida Keys.
Type locality: œCanada
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