Venezuelan Drymarchon.

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: Here's a very literal (and sometimes funny) translation of Die Schlangen von Venezuela, by Lancini & Kornacker ,it was the best I could do with the program I had, if anyone would like the original, let me know. If I find any more info about Drymarchon on any of our books, I'll post it. : Kind Drymarchon (Fitzinger) 1843 the Indigonattern are soil-inhabiting both tree as also & rank among the largest Colubriden Venezuela. They achieve lengths of almost 3m, lead one dawn to night-active way of life & erahren themselves both from snakes & from a multiplicity of other animals. For Humans they are quite useful, since they capture poison snakes beside mice & rats also. The Indigo is ovipar, it puts 8 to 12 eggs, out of which then young Animals of approx. 40cm length slip. With femail Indigos the reproduction-biological phenomenon seems to delayed fertilization (Amphigonia retardata), i.e. sperm cells are conserved during a longer period lebensfaehig in the body. During excitation these snakes with the tail point vibrate & produce by it a noise, which resembles the warning behavior of the Rattlesnake much. It Ability quite aggressively, bites of these Animals leave deep, hurting & slowly welfare-end wounds. The Drymarchon-types have 16-18 Maxillarzaehne, which is Hemipenis gegabelt, have Calyces & small bristles. The seed channel is ungegabelt. The Dorsalia is arranged in 17-17 series, smoothly or easily gekielt & with 2 Apicalgruebchen provided. It is characteristic that the shed series are diagonally arranged. The heading is issued oval & only easily from the trunk, the eyes is large & has round pupils. The Korper is strongly, laterally flattened somthing& indicates vertebral a weak edge. The tail is halflong & pointed ending. this monotypical kind is common with 8 subspecies from North America to Argentina. In Venezuela the elevator occurrence from sea level goes the Animals to approx. 2000 m. animates vorzugt in the Savannen & within the area of the regenwaldrandzon. : Drymarchon corais corais (BOIE) Coluber corais Boid , 1827, Isis of Oken, German name Indigonatter, people name, Rabo Amarillo, cazadora Tarra typica, America geographical spreading, from Venezuela over Trinidad & Tobago to Argentina spreading into Venezuela, in almost all Savannen & low land forests of the country description, Rostrale from above visibly, Nasalia divided, nose openings vary largely, Loreale available, 1 praeoculare & 2 Postocularia, Temporalia 2+2, Supralabialia 8 (4,5), Infralabialia 8 (4) or 9 (5), 2 few Infremaxillaria. The Dorsalia is smooth, has Apicalgruebchen & is arranged in 17-15 to line up. Ventralia 189 to 217, Subcaudalia 63 to 84 double-row, Anaie ungeteilt. the Indigo is on the Korperoberseite light brown or easily yellowish colored, the tail is intensively yellow, while the lower surface is brighter & ungefleckt. This queue, which becomes long almost 3m , moves itself in areas vary much fast & proves itself, although innocuous, as vary much aggressive they is night-actively & rank among the mandatory snake fressern, to whose booty also the poisonous Lanzanottern belongs, beyond that capture it in addition, other reptiles, small mammal, bird & their clutches of eggs. Often Indigos are found also in the close one by waters, where they pursue also frogs. A Clutch of eggs consists of 8-10 eggs, out of which after approximately 3 months the 40-45 cm long young snakes slip. The Ledensraum of these snakes are Savannen & the forests of the lowlandses at heights around approx. 250m. : Drymarchon corais margaritae ROZE , 1959, Nov.Cient. Mash. Hist, Nat. La Salle, Ser. Zool, No 25, p.1 German name, island Indigo. People name, Cazadora, Terra typica, in the proxmity of SanFrancisco de Macanao on the island Margarita, Venezuela. Geographical spreading, Venezuela.Spreading in Venezuela, island Margarita, Beschriebung, Rostrale from above visibly, Loreale available, 1 praeoculare & 2 Postocularia, Temporalia 2+2, Supralabialia 8 (4,5), Infralabialia 8 (5), 2 pair Inframaxillaria. The Dorsalia, which is provided with Apicalgruebchen smoothly & , is arranged in 17-15 series. The number of the Ventralia is with 196, those the Subcaudalia with 76. these are double-row arranged. The Analschild is ungeteilt. In the Front body paragraph this subspecies is black colored, brighter in the rear section. There it indicates additionally a number of irregularly formed brown lines. The heading is more brightly colored the lower surface, is grey & of the Analschild to this for Venezuela endemic subspecies they is only from the western part of the island Margarita well-known-inhabited only the higher, damper regions, All copies found so far were clearly smaller than the Nominatform. : : Drymarchon corais malanurus ( DUMERIL, BIBRON & DUMERIL) mirrorimage plumb bob malanurus DUMERIL, BIBRON & DUMERIL, 1854, erp. Towards, 7, p224, German name Schwarzschwanz Indigonatter, people name, Cazadora, Rabo negro, Terra typica, Mexico geographical spreading over Mexico, Nicaregua, Ekuador, Colombia to north Venezuela spreading into Venezuela, both into the Kuestenkordilleren and aoch into the Anden around Merida description, Rostrale from above well sichrbar, Nasalia divided, nose openings largely, Loreale available, 1 Praeoculare & 2 Postocularia, Temporalia 2+2, 8 (4,5) Supralabialia & 9 Inframaxillaria. The Dorsalbeschuppung is arranged in 17-15 series, which are sheds smoothly & provided with Apicalgruebchen. The Ventralia varies the Subcaudalia between 71 & 88 between 191 216, & is arranged in two series, Anale ungeteilt. The colouring on the top side consists of a light brown to grey, whereby the rear body paragraph is totally black more darkly colored & the tail. The Koptzeichnung consists of four dark vertically to diagonally running lines. Three of these lines begin underneath the eye & limit that for 4, 5, & 6. Upperlip sowie das 3, 4, 5, & 6. Lower lip. The 4th black line runs zwischenden both rear Supralabialia. A further dark line still drags on within the neck area. The Blacktail Indigo achieves likewise a length up to 3m & inhabits both the tropical rain forests & the wet forests at heights around 2000m., like the Nominatform, then also this subspecies is night active & ophiophag & should be protected, since it captures the poison snakes dangerous for humans, apart from the diseases oebertragenden mice & rats also.

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