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Rainbow Snake
Joshua Liverman, CC BY 4.0, via iNaturalist

Snakes

Rainbow Snake

Farancia erytrogramma (Palissot De Beauvois, 1802)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishRainbow Snake
Dutch—
SpanishSerpiente arco iris
Chinese红纹泥蛇
Sranan Tongosneki (general name for the group)
Scientific nameFarancia erytrogramma (Palissot De Beauvois, 1802)

About this species

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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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassSquamata
FamilyColubridae
GenusFarancia

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