Farancia erytrogramma

Farancia erytrogramma
	HI erytrogramma (rainbow snake) photographed in March of 2018 in North Carolina, posed to show ventral coloration
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Farancia
Species:	F. erytrogramma
Binomial name
	Farancia erytrogramma; (Palisot de Beauvois, 1802)
Synonyms
	Coluber erytrogrammus; Palisot de Beauvois, 1802 ; in Sonnini & Latreille, 1802; Coluber erythrogrammus; — Daudin, 1803; Natrix erythrogrammus ; — Merrem, 1820; Homalopsis erythrogrammus; — F. Boie, 1827; Helicops erythrogrammus; — Wagler, 1830; Abastor erythrogrammus ; — Gray, 1849; Calopisma erythrogrammum; — A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron, A.H.A. Duméril, 1854; Homolopsis parviceps ; Blyth, 1854; Hydrops erythrogrammus; — Sclater, 1861; Abastor erytrogrammus; — Theobald, 1868; Abastor erythrogramus; — Cochran, 1952; Farancia erytrogramma ; — Conant, 1975;

Farancia erytrogramma (also known commonly as the rainbow snake, and less frequently as the eel moccasin) is a species of large, nonvenomous, highly aquatic, colubrid snake, which is endemic to 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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