This lifeform is found in the SE USA (Georgia, Alabama, and Florida). The black or very dark color will help identify this lifeform. This lifeform is widespread, but not common.

Indigo snake (Drymarchon dorais) is found from Florida and Texas in North America south to Argentina. Subspecies cooperi is found in the eastern United States. Subspecies erebennus is found in the southwestern United States. Subspecies cooperi is a shiny blue/black snake up to seven feet long with a record over eight feet long. These snakes frequent open dry areas usually now converted to agriculture are consequently rare over most of their original range.

Drymarchon genus contains a single species found from South America through Central America to southern North America.

Family Colubridae contains the vast majority (70% of all snakes) of the world's species of snakes. The number is estimated to be over 1,850 and possibly up to 2,500.

Lizards and Snakes (Squamata Order) share many common characteristics and consequently they are grouped in a single order. There are greater differences between some groups of lizards than there are between other groups of lizards and snakes. The same is true of snakes. Lizards and snakes share a common skull shape.

Reptiles (Class Reptilia) are an ancient group of scaled  chordates. These scales may be permanently joined, as in the  turtles, or flexible, as in the snakes. Reptiles are land-based. Their eggs are laid on land and the young are air breathing.

Backboned Animals (Phylum Chordata) are the most advanced group of animals on earth. These animals are characterized by having a spinal cord or backbone. Most members have a clearly defined brain that controls the organism through a spinal cord. Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals are in this phylum.

Currently, some taxonomists believe that the fish should be divided into two groups (sharks and regular fishes) and that there are some other primitive groups in the phylum such as hagfish or lampreys.

Animal Kingdom contains numerous organisms that feed on other animals or plants. Included in the animal kingdom are the lower marine invertebrates such as sponges and corals, the jointed legged animals such as insects and spiders, and the backboned animals such as fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.