Category:Racers

Racers are a genus of thin bodied, fast moving, colubrid Snake's. They are widespread around the world and vary greatly in habitat and behaviour. In the past, Coluber was a catch-all genus which included almost all snake speciesbknown at the time. Even the Cobra was once classified as Coluber naja.

As presented here, the genus is limited to its "modern" content of racers and whipsnakes. Still, some of these species (namely the whipsnakes) are increasingly separated as Dolichophis and others probably also do not really belong here. But modern taxonomic work has reclassified all but the racers, of which there are 23 currently recognized species.