Farancia erytrogramma
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This article is about the snake of the United States. For the Australian Aboriginal mythological figure, see Rainbow Serpent.
Farancia erytrogramma (also known commonly as the rainbow snake, and less frequently as the eel moccasin) is a species of large, nonvenomous, highly amphibious colubrid snake, endemic to the coastal plains of the southeastern United States. Two subspecies are recognized as being valid, one of which has been declared extinct.
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Farancia erytrogramma | |
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HI erytrogramma (rainbow snake) photographed in March of 2018 in North Carolina, posed to show ventral coloration | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Colubridae |
Genus: | Farancia |
Species: | F. erytrogramma |
Binomial name | |
Farancia erytrogramma (Palisot de Beauvois, 1802) | |
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