Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Black-tailed indigo snake ORDER - SERPENTES FAMILY - Colubridae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Drymarchon corais SYNONYMS - Drymarchon corais melanurus, Dumeril, Bibron &, Dumeril and Coluber corais, Boie, 1827 REFERENCES - 4 and 1 District Reference Toledo, Belize 1 Belize, Belize 2 Corozal, Belize 3 Orange Walk, Belize 3 Cayo, Belize 3 Stann Creek, Belize 3 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Private land, see comments Sighting Dry season 1 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) Dry season 2 Government land 3 Shipstern Nature Reserve 3 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 3 Caye Caulker 3 Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary (Private 3 Slate Creek Preserve 3 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve 3 Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary 3 Bladen Nature Reserve 3 Hydrologic Association Reference Cox's Lagoon 2 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 3 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 00' to 88 15' 3 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 4 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 3 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 3 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 3 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30' 3 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 3 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 3 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 3 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 45' to 89 00' 3 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 3 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 1 15 50' to 16 00'; 88 50' to 89 15' 3 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 3 References 1 Matola, S., 1990. The Dolores Expedition, January 27 - February 3, 1990. Unpublished report. 2 Hunt, H. R., J. Tamarack. 1992. Cox Lagoon Crocodile Preserve. Unpub. report. pp.4-8 3 Meerman, J., 1994. Summary of Herpetofauna Distributions in Belize. Report to National Protected Areas Management Project. 4 Lee, Julian C. 1996. The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Yucatán Peninsula. Comstock Publishing Associates. Ithaca, New York.
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01/19/98