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Pituophis
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Pituophis is a genus of nonvenomous colubrid snakes, commonly referred to as gopher snakes, pine snakes, and bullsnakes, which are endemic to North America. They are often yellow or cream in color with dark spots and a dark line across their face. Some species can exceed seven feet in length. Gopher snakes can live for 15 years. The gopher snake is commonly misidentified as a rattlesnake because of its similar coloration and its defensive behavior when feeling threatened. A scared gopher snake will flatten its head, hiss loudly, and shake its tail rapidly, doing a very convincing rattlesnake i
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassSquamata
- FamilyColubridae
松蛇屬（學名：Pituophis）是蛇亞目游蛇科下的一個無毒蛇屬，又稱牛蛇，主要分布於美國與墨西哥。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 168
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Colubridae
- Collections
- UTEP, SDNHM, IGL-UNAM, MSB, YPM, CMN
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, Canada
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Nomenclature
- Geographic range
- Description
- Modified epiglottis
- Species and subspecies
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Pituophis is a genus of nonvenomous colubrid snakes, commonly referred to as gopher snakes, pine snakes, and bullsnakes, which are endemic to North America. They are often yellow or cream in color with dark spots and a dark line across their face. Some species can exceed seven feet in length. Gopher snakes can live for 15 years. The gopher snake is commonly misidentified as a rattlesnake because of its similar coloration and its defensive behavior when feeling threatened. A scared gopher snake will flatten its head, hiss loudly, and shake its tail rapidly, doing a very convincing rattlesnake imitation.
==Nomenclature== The genus name Pituophis is a Latinized modern scientific Greek compound Πιτυόφις : "pine snake"; from (pítus, "pine"), and (óphis, "snake").
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