Photo of a Gray Rat Snake (Pantherophis spiloides)
Photo: Shoompwoozy, CC BY-NC, via iNaturalist
Venom
Not venomous
Constrictor
Constrictor
Type
Colubrid
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Pantherophis
Continents
Europe
Countries
1
How common
Rare

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About

Gray Rat Snake (Pantherophis spiloides) is a non-venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Belgium. It lives in habitats such as temperate deciduous forest, temperate mixed forest, broadleaf forest, forest edges and 13 more. Rare: no confirmed iNaturalist sightings.

Where it lives

Native range

Habitats

Estimated from where this snake is recorded and what kind of snake it is - not a confirmed habitat survey.

Related snakes

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