kirtland's snake Archives - The Orianne Society

Pictured here alongside two crayfish burrow chimneys is a large, gravid Kirtland's Snake (Clonophis kirtlandii) discovered at a previously unknown site within the Grand Prairie Division of Illinois.

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Kirtland’s Snake

ByTracy Karplus
September 13, 2023

Kirtland’s Snakes are perhaps most well-known for their microhabitat associations with burrowing crayfishes, where they traverse the aquatic-fossorial and predator-prey boundary in the dark, flooded underground labyrinths excavated by their crayfish hosts.