Talk:Southern black racer

Confused with Water Moccasin
How, why is this in here? How could they be confused?

Clean-up images
I'm adding the clean up tag to this article since it seems to have multiple image gallaries scattered thoughout it that should be more logically organized. ~ Ciar ~ (Talk to me!)  23:28, 25 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I did some general clean-up on the article and removed the tag. Something will still need done to tweak the images/captions. ~ All is One ~ (talk) 21:07, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

I did not edit it out, but the main photo looks like an Everglades Racer, not a Southern Black Racer. The image details say it was found on Merritt Island, which is further evidence that this is an Everglades Racer as black racers are supposedly absent from the Cape Canaveral area, per. Wikiwikipopo (talk) 23:38, 14 April 2016 (UTC) -Alex

Photo of two snakes in New Jersey
Not sure if they are black racers, but a person familiar with local environment said they probably were black racers; for possible inclusion in article.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 23:59, 20 November 2013 (UTC)


 * I realize that I'm replying to an old post, but those aren't racers. I think they're northern watersnakes. 170.145.0.100 (talk) 22:29, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
 * My first guess was water mocassins, but those apparently don't get as far north as New Jersey. They're definitely not racers (as they are way too thick-bodied and are banded), so I think 170.145.0.100 is right. —BarrelProof (talk) 23:44, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 2 October 2015

 * The following is a closed discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the proposal was moved. --BDD (talk) 15:02, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Coluber constrictor priapus → Southern black racer – WP:COMMONNAME. As the article says, this really fast snake is "commonly known as the southern black racer". Google Advanced Search shows 14,700 results for "Southern black racer" and only 8,600 for "Coluber constrictor priapus". (The Google Ngram viewer is not helpful, as it finds only one instance of either one of those in a case-insensitive search.) The target name already redirects here and always has since it was created in 2006. There has never been a previous move or move discussion for this article. Note that the article itself and its Talk page use only the "racer" name, except for showing the article's title in the lead sentence and a sentence that was written to explain the meaning of the scientific name. —BarrelProof (talk) 19:31, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support, common name, per nom. Randy Kryn 13:28, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.