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Coluber constrictor constrictor
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Coluber constrictor constrictor,
northern black racer
Conservation status
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Coluber
Species:
Subspecies:
C. c. constrictor
Trinomial name
Coluber constrictor constrictor
Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
  • Coluber constrictor
    Linnaeus, 1758
  • Bascanion constrictor
    — Baird & Girard, 1853
  • Coryphodon constrictor
    A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1854
  • Zamenis constrictor
    Boulenger, 1893
  • Coluber constrictor
    — Stejneger & Barbour, 1917

The northern black racer (Coluber constrictor constrictor) is a subspecies of the eastern racer (Coluber constrictor), a nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae. The subspecies is present in the northeastern United States.

Geographic range

Coluber constrictor constrictor ranges from Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi in the south, to central New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine in the north, to Tennessee, Kentucky, and eastern Ohio in the west. At the southern end of their range, they overlap with Coluber constrictor priapus, the southern black racer, and at the westward end they overlap with Coluber constrictor flaviventris, the eastern yellow-bellied racer.

Symbol

The northern black racer is the state reptile of Ohio.

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