Photo of a Great Plains Rat Snake (Pantherophis emoryi)
Photo: Gerry Salmon, CC BY-NC, via iNaturalist

Great Plains Rat Snake

Pantherophis emoryi

Venom
Not venomous
Constrictor
Constrictor
Type
Colubrid
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Pantherophis
Continents
North America
Countries
2
How common
Common

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About

Great Plains Rat Snake (Pantherophis emoryi) is a non-venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Mexico, United States. It lives in habitats such as tropical rainforest, tropical moist forest, tropical lowland forest, tropical montane forest and 44 more. Common: recorded in 1466 places on iNaturalist.

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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