Fox Snake

Fox snake or foxsnake is the common name given to some North American

rat snake Rat snakes are members – along with kingsnakes, milk snakes, vine snakes and indigo snakes – of the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. They are medium to large constrictors and are found throughout much of the Northern Hemi ...

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Pantherophis ''Pantherophis'' is a genus of nonvenomous colubrid snakes endemic to central and eastern regions of North America. It consists of the North American ratsnakes, the foxsnakes, and the cornsnakes. The genus, which contains 10 recognized spec ...

''. It is generally agreed that there are two such species, but three candidate species names have arisen for them: * ''

Pantherophis gloydi ''Pantherophis vulpinus'', commonly known as the eastern foxsnake or eastern fox snake, is a species of rat snake in the family Colubridae. The species is nonvenomous and is endemic to the eastern Great Lakes region of the United States, as well ...

'' (eastern fox snake), originally described by Conant in 1940, merged with ''P. vulpinus'' in 2011 * ''

Pantherophis vulpinus ''Pantherophis vulpinus'', commonly known as the foxsnake or the eastern fox snake, Crother BI (editor) (2008). ''Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico''. Society for the Study of A ...

'' (foxsnake or western fox snake or eastern fox snake), originally described by Baird and Girard in 1853 * ''

Pantherophis ramspotti ''Pantherophis ramspotti'', commonly known as the western fox snake, is a species of rat snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to the upper midwestern United States, west of the Mississippi river. It is nonvenomous. Etymology Th ...

'' (western fox snake), originally described by Crother, White, Savage, Eckstut, Graham and Gardner in 2011 {{Animal common name Colubrids Set index articles on snakes Snake common names