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The Pacific gopher snake has a base color ranging from yellow to dark brown and has a gray coloring on the sides of the body. It is a spotted snake, with the spots being dark brown. Usually there are 41 to 99 spots on the body, while the tail spots range from 14 to 33. The side of the body has 2 or 3 rows of alternating black and brown spots. [4]
Pituophis catenifer. — Stejneger & Barbour, 1917[2][3][4] Common name: Pacific gopher snake, coast gopher snake, western gopher snake,[5] more. Pituophis catenifer is a species of nonvenomous colubrid snake endemic to North America. Nine subspecies are currently recognized, including the nominotypical subspecies, Pituophis catenifer catenifer ...
Trinomial name. Pituophis catenifer deserticola. Stejneger, 1893. Pituophis catenifer deserticola, commonly known by its standardized English name since the 1950s, the Great Basin gophersnake, [1][2][3] is a subspecies of non venomous colubrid snake ranging in parts of western United States and adjacent southwestern Canada. [4][5]
In all snakes of the genus Pituophis, the epiglottis is peculiarly modified so that it is thin, erect and flexible. When a stream of air is forced from the trachea, the epiglottis vibrates, thereby producing the peculiarly loud, hoarse hissing for which bullsnakes, gopher snakes and pine snakes are well known.
Botta's pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae) is a pocket gopher native to western North America. It is also known in some areas as valley pocket gopher , particularly in California. Both the specific and common names of this species honor Paul-Émile Botta , a naturalist and archaeologist who collected mammals in California in 1827 and 1828.
Pituophis catenifer sayi. — Collins, 1997. The bullsnake (Pituophis catenifer sayi) is a large, nonvenomous, colubrid snake. It is a subspecies of the gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer). The bullsnake is one of the largest/longest snakes of North America and the United States, reaching lengths up to 8 ft.
Baja California coachwhip Masticophis lateralis: California striped whipsnake Masticophis taeniatus: Striped whipsnake Nerodia fasciata: Banded water snake Phyllorhynchus decurtatus: Western leaf-nosed snake Pituophis catenifer: Gopher snake Rhinocheilus lecontei: Long-nosed snake Salvadora hexalepis: Western patch-nosed snake Sonora semiannulata
The common kingsnake is known to be immune to the venom of other snakes and does eat rattlesnakes, but it is not necessarily immune to the venom of snakes from different localities. [10] Kingsnakes such as the California kingsnake can exert twice as much constriction force relative to body size as rat snakes and pythons. Scientists believe that ...