Indigo Snake
Drymarchon corais
- Venom
- Not venomous
- Constrictor
- Not documented
- Type
- Colubrid
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Drymarchon
- Continents
- South America
- Countries
- 9
- How common
- Common
- Diet
- Eats other snakes
About
Indigo Snake (Drymarchon corais) is a non-venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and 4 more. It is known to eat other snakes. It lives in habitats such as tropical rainforest, tropical moist forest, tropical lowland forest, tropical montane forest and 44 more. Common: recorded in 160 places on iNaturalist.
Where it lives
Native range
Habitats
Estimated from where this snake is recorded and what kind of snake it is - not a confirmed habitat survey.
- Tropical Rainforest
- Tropical Moist Forest
- Tropical Lowland Forest
- Tropical Montane Forest
- Montane Rainforest
- Cloud Forest
- Tropical Dry Forest
- Tropical Seasonal Forest
- Subtropical Dry Forest
- Evergreen Forest
- Coastal Forest
- Gallery Forest
- Woodland
- Dry Woodland
- Open Woodland
- Scrub Forest
- Thorn Forest
- Mountain Forest
- Secondary Forest
- Regenerating Forest
- Forest Edges
- Forest Clearings
- Savanna
- Tropical Savanna
Related snakes
- Eastern Indigo Snake Drymarchon couperi
- Central American Indigo Snake Drymarchon melanurus
- Margarita Indigo Snake Drymarchon margaritae
- Falcon indigo snake Drymarchon caudomaculatus
- Zhao's Mountain Stream Snake Opisthotropis zhaoermii
- Atractus dapsilis
- de Silva’s Rough-Side Snake Aspidura desilvai
- Hognose Lineate Blackhead Apostolepis lineata
- Tantilla stenigrammi
- Semau Island groundsnake Stegonotus lividus
- Thomas' Racer Pseudalsophis thomasi
- Erythrolamprus rochai
Stay safe: a photo or a web page can never tell you for certain that a snake is harmless. Keep your distance, never handle a wild snake, and get medical help straight away after any bite.