Texas Indigo Snake

Description:

• The Texas Indigo Snake may reach up to 8.5 feet long and weigh up to 5.5 pounds.
• The Texas Indigo Snake is shiny and somewhat translucent with a brown-black coloration. Their underside is a combination of cloudy orange and blue-gray. The sides of their head is patterned with black or brown lines, radiating from the eye.

Personality:

• There is a distinction between the two female snakes. One has 3 stripes down each side of the lower jaw and the other has 4 stripes on each side of the lower jaw.
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REPRODUCTION:

            Lays 4 - 12 eggs in May; eggs hatched in early fall; hatchlings are roughly l' in length.

THREAT :

    Man, through commercial collecting made possible through the snake's slowness and conspicuousness, and through destruction of the snake's mature forest habitat; additionally, exposure to gasoline fumes during rattlesnake "roundups" and pesticide may cause mortality

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