Spilotes pullatus

Spilotes pullatus
Caninana at Alto Ribeira Tourist State Park, Brazil.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Spilotes
Species:
S. pullatus
Binomial name
Spilotes pullatus
Synonyms
  • Coluber pullatus Linnaeus, 1758
  • Tyria pullata — Fitzinger, 1826
  • Spilotes pullatus — Wagler, 1830[2][3]

Spilotes pullatus, commonly known as the chicken snake, tropical chicken snake,[3] or yellow rat snake,[3] is a species of large nonvenomous colubrid snake endemic to the Neotropics.

  1. ^ Arzamendia, V.; Caicedo, J.R.; Fitzgerald, L.; Giraudo, A.; Gutiérrez-Cárdenas, P.; Kacoliris, F.; Montero, R.; Pelegrin, N.; Rivas, G.; Scrocchi, G.; Williams, J.; Gonzales, L.; Nogueira, C. de C.; Gagliardi, G.; Cisneros-Heredia, D.F.; Catenazzi, A.; Valencia, J.; Murphy, J. (2019). "'Spilotes pullatus'". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T190633A1955620. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T190633A1955620.en.
  2. ^ Boulenger, G.A. 1894. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, Printers.) London. xi + 382 pp. + Plates I.- XX. (Spilotes pullatus pp. 23-24.)
  3. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference reptarium was invoked but never defined (see the help page).