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The Louisiana pine snake (Pituophis ruthveni) is a species of large, non-venomous, constrictor in the family Colubridae. [3] [4] This powerful snake is notable because of its large eggs and small clutch sizes.
pine snake: P. m. lodingi Blanchard, 1924 – black pine snake; P. m. melanoleucus (Daudin, 1803) – northern pine snake; P. m. mugitus Barbour, 1921 – Florida pine snake; southeastern United States Pituophis ruthveni Stull, 1929: Louisiana pine snake: west-central Louisiana and East Texas Pituophis vertebralis (Blainville, 1835) Cape gopher ...
The pine snake inhabits pine flatwoods, sandy pine-oak woodlands, prairies, cultivated field, open brushland, rocky desert and chaparral. It occurs from sea level to an elevation of 9,000 ft (2,700 m). [8] The pine snake requires well-drained, sandy soils with little vegetation for use as nesting and hibernation sites. [1]
The Memphis Zoo is celebrating the final Louisiana pine snake hatchling of the season. The zoo breeds the snakes to be released back into the wild as the species faces declining numbers, due ...
Pituophis melanoleucus lodingi, commonly known as the black pinesnake or black pine snake, [4] is a subspecies of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to southern Mississippi and southwestern Alabama.
Snake diversity is relatively high in the Piney Woods for a temperate area of its size, with well over 30 species ranging into the region. The Louisiana pinesnake (Pituophis ruthveni) is endemic and Slowinski's cornsnake (Pantherophis slowinskii) is nearly endemic.
Pine snake may refer to: Pituophis melanoleucus, a nonvenomous colubrid found in North America; Lampropeltis g. getula, a.k.a. the eastern kingsnake, a nonvenomous ...
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