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All Names

  • English
    • Southern Plains Rat Snake
    • Great Plains Rat Snake
    • Great Plains Ratsnake
  • Scientific names
    • Pantherophis emoryi
    • Elaphe laeta
    • Coluber emoryi
    • Elaphe emoryi
    • Elaphe guttata meahllmorum
    • Elaphe guttata emoryi
    • Elaphe laeta intermontanus
    • Elaphe quivira
    • Scotophis emoryi
    • Scotophis calligaster
    • Coluber laetus
    • Coluber rhinomegas
  • Unknown
    • Great Plains Rat Snake

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Recent Observations

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Observer

keegansmith417

Date

Sep 24, 2011

Place

Hughes Mountain Washington County Missouri (Google, OSM)

Description

The Great Plains Ratsnake!

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What

Great Plains Ratsnake Pantherophis emoryi

Observer

greenmother

Date

Sep 4, 2011

Place

Oklahoma County Oklahoma (Google, OSM)

Description

Sadly I think someone killed this snake and threw it on the street. :( They probably didn't know that it was just a corn snake

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Description from Wikipedia

The Great Plains Rat Snake (Pantherophis emoryi, Elaphe guttata emoryi or Elaphe emoryi) is a species of non-venomous rat snake native to the eastern two thirds of the United States, from New Jersey to Nebraska, to Colorado, south to Texas, and into northern Mexico. It is a subspecies of the corn snake, which is commonly kept as a pet, and is sometimes interbred with the corn snake to produce varying pattern and color morphs. The epithet...

Source: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/spatial-data. Downloaded March 2011.