Pituophis

Taxobox
name = "Pituophis"


image_caption = San Diego Gopher Snake
"Pithuophis melanoleucus annectens"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Colubridae
genus = "Pituophis"
genus_authority = Holbrook, 1842

"Pituophis" is a genus of non-venomous colubrid snakes commonly referred to as gopher snakes, pine snakes, and bull snakes. Species within the genus are found throughout the United States and Mexico.

Species

*Gopher Snake, "Pituophis catenifer"
**Sonoran Gopher Snake, "Pituophis catenifer affinis" (Hallowell, 1852)
**San Diego Gopher Snake, "Pituophis catenifer annectens" (Baird & Girard, 1853)
**Central Baja California Gopher Snake, "Pituophis catenifer bimaris" (Klauber, 1946)
**Pacific Gopher Snake, "Pituophis catenifer catenifer" (Blainville, 1835)
**Coronado Island Gopher Snake, "Pituophis catenifer coronalis" (Klauber, 1946)
**Great Basin Gopher Snake, "Pituophis catenifer deserticola" (Stejneger, 1893)
**San Martin Island Gopher Snake, "Pituophis catenifer fulginatus" (Klauber, 1946)
**Credos Island Gopher Snake, "Pituophis catenifer insulanus" (Klauber, 1946)
**Santa Cruz Gopher Snake, "Pituophis catenifer pumilis" (Klauber, 1946)
**Bull Snake, "Pituophis catenifer sayi" (Schlegel, 1837)
**Cape Gopher Snake, "Pituophis catenifer vertebralis" (Blainville, 1835)
*Mexican Pine Snake, "Pituophis deppei"
**Mexican Pine Snake, "Pituophis deppei deppei" (Duméril, 1853)
**Northern Mexican Pine Snake, "Pituophis deppei jani" (Cope, 1861)
*Middle American Gopher Snake, "Pituophis lineaticollis"
**"Pituophis lineaticollis gibsoni" (Stuart, 1954)
**"Pituophis lineaticollis lineaticollis" (Cope, 1861)
*Pine Snake, "Pituophis melanoleucus"
**Black Pine Snake, "Pituophis melanoleucus lodingi" (Blanchard, 1924)
**Northern Pine Snake, "Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus" (Daudin, 1803)
**Florida Pine Snake, "Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus" (Barbour, 1921)
*Louisiana Pine Snake, "Pituophis ruthveni" (Stull, 1929)

References

*EMBL genus|genus=Pituophis