The Texas indigo snake (Drymarchon melanurus erebennus) is currently considered a subspecies of the Eastern or Florida indigo snake and is found in Texas and down deep into Mexico. This beautiful specimen was found resting in a Christmas cactus where it had plenty of shade from the Texas summer sun in the very southern tip of the Lone Star State.
Texas Indigo Snake
I'm back from a bit of a hiatus! We moved from the Seattle, Washington area to the Southern tip of Texas in the Rio Grande Valley last month, and it's been a mad scramble to get up and running again! In order to get back in the groove of posting new photos, I'm going to share with you the very first photo I took. Five minutes into my very first outing into the mesquite thickets near our new home, I found this gorgeous Texas indigo snake! It looked very similar to the endemic Florida indigo snake in my home state, but the unusual facial pattern threw me off and I had to search for a proper species identification.
The Texas indigo snake (Drymarchon melanurus erebennus) is currently considered a subspecies of the Eastern or Florida indigo snake and is found in Texas and down deep into Mexico. This beautiful specimen was found resting in a Christmas cactus where it had plenty of shade from the Texas summer sun in the very southern tip of the Lone Star State.
The Texas indigo snake (Drymarchon melanurus erebennus) is currently considered a subspecies of the Eastern or Florida indigo snake and is found in Texas and down deep into Mexico. This beautiful specimen was found resting in a Christmas cactus where it had plenty of shade from the Texas summer sun in the very southern tip of the Lone Star State.
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