Indian cobra Naja naja naja (8.83%, N = 46; family Elapidae), Gray's rat snake
Coluber ventromaculatus (7.87%, N = 41; family Colubridae), Common krait Bungarus caeruleus (7.49%, N = 39; family Elapidae) and Checkered keel-back Xenochrophis piscator piscator (7.29%, N = 38; family Colubridae) were the most abundant and diversified species, whereas Northern wolf snake Lycodon striatus striatus, Sindh long-nose sand snake Lytorhynchus paradoxus and Afghan awl-head snake L.
occidentalis, two species of racer in the genus
Coluber, and R.
All of the large colubrids captured during this investigation (Elaphe obsoleta and
Coluber constrictor) were taken in funnel or snake traps, as they seem to be capable of escaping from pitfall traps.
(1981) were the Bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianns), Eastern Racer (
Coluber constrictor), Smooth Green Snake (Liochlorophis vernalis), Redbelly Snake (Storeria occipitomaculata), and Lined Snake (Tropidoclonion lineatum).
We here report on two field sightings of live, uncollected specimens of
Coluber bholanathi.
It looks like the shed snake skin in your photo belongs to either an eastern ratsnake (Pantherophis alleghanensis) or a black racer (
Coluber constrictor).
(6) Vestibulum ante ipsum primoque in limine Pyrrhus exsultat telis et luce coruscus aena: qualis ubi in lucem
coluber mala gramina pastus, frigida sub terra tumidum quem bruma tegebat, nunc, positis nouus exuuiis nitidusque iuuenta, lubrica conuoluit sublato pectore terga arduus ad solem, et linguis micat ore trisulcis.
Other species of reptiles observed at the site were North American Racer (
Coluber constrictor) and Gophersnake (Pituophis catenifer); neither was abundant.
umbellus proeliare 1942 Neorenifer
Coluber Mouth, Parker, 1941 georgianum constrictor Esophagus N.
After a period of 15 min, an alarm stimulus consisting of a 15-s video clip of a whip horseshoe snake (
Coluber hippocrepis) slowly crawling over the red tile background was presented on the screen.
In one study four protein-encoding mitochondrial genes including cytochrome b, NADH-dehydrogenase subunits 1, 2 and 4 and one nuclear (c-mos) gene were sequenced to infer phylogenetic relationships among Old and New World representatives of racers and whipsnakes,
Coluber (sensu lato) (Nagy et al., 2004).