Gray ratsnake

For the species known as Gray's rat snake, see Coluber ventromaculatus.

Gray ratsnake
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Pantherophis
Species:
P. spiloides
Binomial name
Pantherophis spiloides
Synonyms[3]

[4]

  • Elaphis spiloides
    A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854
  • Elaphe obsoleta spiloides
    — Conant & Collins, 1991
  • Elaphe spiloides
    — Burbrink, 2001
  • Pantherophis obsoletus spiloides
    — D. Schmidt & Kunz, 2005
  • Scotophis spiloides
    — Collins & Taggart, 2008
  • Pantherophis spiloides
    — Pyron & Burbrink, 2009
  • Pantherophis alleghaniensis
    — Holbrook, 1836

The gray ratsnake or gray rat snake (Pantherophis spiloides), also commonly known as the black ratsnake, central ratsnake, chicken snake, midland ratsnake, or pilot black snake, is a species of nonvenomous snake in the genus Pantherophis in the subfamily Colubrinae.[5] The gray ratsnake is one of about ten species within the American ratsnake genus Pantherophis.

  1. ^ Hammerson, G.A. (2019). "Pantherophis spiloides ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T90069659A90069671. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T90069659A90069671.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference dum1854 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Species Pantherophis spiloides at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  4. ^ Frank T. Burbrink; R. Alexander Pyron; Marcelo Gehara; Alexander D. McKelvy; Edward A. Myers. "The corrected taxonomic history of the North American ratsnakes (Pantherophis obsoletus complex)". Rutgers Newark, Earth & Environmental Science.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference ssar was invoked but never defined (see the help page).