Scarlet snake

Scarlet snake

Cemophora coccinea

ITIS Species Code: 174195 NatureServ Element Code: ARADB03010

Taxa:

Order:

Family:

Reptilia

Squamata

Colubridae

NatureServe Global Rank:

NatureServe State (NC) Rank:

Federal Status:

NC State Status:

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HEXAGONAL KNOWN RANGE:

PREDICTED DISTRIBUTION:

SUMMARY OF STATEWIDE PREDICTED DISTRIBUTION:

Land Unit

US Fish & Wildlife Service

US Forest Service

US National Park Service

US Department of Defense

NC State Parks

NC University System

NC Wildlife Res. Com.

NC Forest Service

NC Div. of Coastal Mgmt.

Local Governments

Non-Governmental Org.

Other Public Lands

Private Lands

GAP Status 1-2

All Protected Lands

Statewide

Hectares

15,699.96

142,235.82

70,919.64

24,635.07

21,538.44

2,895.75

52,355.43

4,149.45

265.14

3,009.87

5,186.52

4,070.07

6,399,510.93

102,081.51

343,961.82

6,746,472.09

Acres

38,795.44

351,472.30

175,246.21

60,874.57

53,222.63

7,155.55

129,373.06

10,253.51

655.18

7,437.55

12,816.17

10,057.36

15,813,532.82

252,248.86

849,948.00

16,670,892.35

% of Dist. on

Prot. Lands

4.6 %

41.4 %

20.5 %

7.2 %

6.3 %

0.8 %

14.9 %

1.2 %

< 0.1 %

1.4 %

0.9 %

< 0.1 %

29.7 %

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% of Dist. on

All Lands

0.2 %

2.1 %

1.1 %

0.4 %

0.3 %

< 0.1 %

0.8 %

< 0.1 %

94.9 %

1.5 %

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HABITAT DESCRIPTION:

NATURE SERVE GLOBAL HABITAT COMMENTS:

Hardwood, mixed, or pine forest/woodland and adjacent open areas with sandy or loamy well-drained soils (Behler and King 1979). Also salt grass prairie in Texas (Tennant 1984). Largely fossorial; sometimes found under rocks or in or under logs. Eggs are laid under moist humus (Minton 1972) or in other underground sites.

MODELING DESCRIPTION:

Occupied Landcover Map Units:

Code	Name	Description	NC Natural Heritage Program Equivalent
121	Maritime Pinelands	Loblolly forests and woodlands of the outer coastal plain.	Estuarine Fringe Loblolly Pine Forest
63	Coastal Plain Mesic Hardwood Forests	Beech dominated forests with white oak and northern red oak as possible co-dominants. Dry-mesic to mesic forests on slopes and small stream bottoms in the coastal plain.	Mesic Mixed Hardwood Forest, Basic Mesic Forests
138	Coastal Plain Dry to Dry-Mesic Oak Forests	Oak dominated forests of the coastal plain. Includes white oak forests with water oak or northern red oak and hickories as co-dominants.	Dry Mesic Oak Hickory Forest, Basic Oak Hickory Forest, Dry Oak Hickory Forest
97	Mesic Longleaf Pine	Longleaf pine woodlands without a major scrub oak component. Slash or loblolly pines may be present as well.	Mesic Pine Flatwoods
42	Xeric Longleaf Pine	Sandhills including a range of longleaf pine density from predominantly wiregrass, scrub oak dominated to true longleaf pine woodland. This does not include mesic or saturated flatwood types.	Xeric Sandhill Scrub, Pine/Scrub Oak Sandhill, Coastal Fringe Sandhill
46	Xeric Oak - Pine Forests	Mixed forest dominated by yellow pines with white or northern red oaks co-dominating.	Pine Oak Heath
232	Xeric Pine-Hardwood Woodlands and Forests	Mixed forest dominated by yellow pines with drier oaks including southern red, post, and chestnut oaks.	Dry Oak Hickory Forest
228	Piedmont Dry-Mesic Oak and Hardwood Forests	Primarily oak dominated forests, white oak is often dominant, with co-dominants including . Also represented by sweetgum and tulip poplar dominated forests.	Dry Mesic Oak Hickory Forest, Basic Oak Hickory Forest, Dry Oak Hickory Forest
222	Piedmont Dry-Mesic Pine Forests	Loblolly dominated forests resulting from succession following clearing. This type occurs on all moisture regimes following disturbance with the exception of the extremely xeric sites.	No equivalent
382	Dry Mesic Oak Pine Forests	Mixed forests of the coastal plain and piedmont. Includes loblolly pine with white, southern red and/or post oak and loblolly with water oak. On basic sites of the piedmont, eastern red cedar may co-occur with post, black, and blackjack oaks.	Dry Mesic Oak Hickory Forest, Xeric Hard Pan Forest, Chestnut Oak Forest, Dry Mesic Oak Hickory Forest, Dry Oak Hickory Forest
220	Piedmont Xeric Pine Forests	Dry to xeric pine forests dominated by Virginia pine, shortleaf pine or Eastern Red Cedar.	Pine Oak Heath
226	Piedmont Xeric Woodlands	Generally post and blackjack oak dominated woodlands. White ash and pignut hickory can be found in combination with Eastern red cedar on glades.	Xeric Hardpan Forest
180	Agricultural Crop Fields	Farm fields used for row crops.	No equivalent
205	Agricultural Pasture/Hay and Natural Herbaceous	Farm fields used for pasture grass or hay production, as well as old fields dominated by native and exotic grasses.	No equivalent
202	Residential Urban	Includes vegetation interspersed in residential areas. Includes lawns, mixed species woodlots, and horticultural shrubs. Vegetation accounts for between 20 - 70% of the cover.	No equivalent

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Additional Spatial Constraints:

Exclude all area outside of known range.

CITATIONS:

Dowling, H. G. 1993. Viewpoint:a reply to Collins (1991, 1992). Herpetol. Rev. 24:11-13.

Minton, S. A., Jr. 1972. Amphibians and reptiles of Indiana. Indiana Academy Science Monographs 3. v + 346 pp.

Behler, J. L., and F. W. King. 1979. The Audubon Society field guide to North American reptiles and amphibians. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 719 pp.

Ashton, R. E., Jr., and P. S. Ashton. 1981. Handbook of Reptiles and Amphibians of Florida. Part One:The Snakes. Windward Pub. Co., Miami, Florida. 176 pp.

Williams, K. L. 1985. CEMOPHORA, C. COCCINEA. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 374:1-4.

Tennant, A. 1984. The Snakes of Texas. Texas Monthly Press, Austin, Texas. 561 pp.

Collins, J. T. 1991. Viewpoint:a new taxonomic arrangement for some North American amphibians and reptiles. SSAR Herpetol. Review 22:42-43.

10 March 2005

This data was compiled and/or developed by the North Carolina GAP Analysis Project.

For more information please contact them at:
NC-GAP Analysis Project
Dept. of Zoology, NCSU
Campus Box 7617
Raleigh, NC 27695-7617
(919) 513-2853
www.basic.ncsu.edu/ncgap