#pituophis

[herpsandbirds]

Louisiana Pine Snake (Pituophis ruthveni), family Colubridae, found in west-central Louisiana and East Texas

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Matt Buckingham

[sunfish-exotics]

Feeling like fall!

[wolfchanw]

I went for a hike with one of my favorite humans today and found this little darling sunning themselves on a popular trail. I decided to move them off the path as there were a LOT of bikes whizzing by, and they were so polite! No hissing, no musking, no bites!

@snake-spotted I thought you'd appreciate my new friend too!

[fenrislorsrai]

Florida Pine Snake by Nick Scobel Via Flickr: Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus Adult female from southern Georgia.

[herps-and-noods]

An Ichigo Appreciation post, because it’s overdue.

[crudlynaturephotos]

[herpsandbirds]

Bullsnake (Pituophus catenifer sayi), defensive display, family Colubridae, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, OK, USA

Though this snake was once considered (by some herpetologists) to be a distinct species, P. sayi, it is now considered to be a Gopher Snake subspecies.

photograph by Randy Jones/USFWS

[sunfish-exotics]

The newbie shed out while I was at work yesterday. He's so cute and not shy at all! I'm calling him Muhly.

[dougdimmadodo]

Louisiana Pine Snake (Pituophis ruthveni)

Family: Colubrid Snake Family (Colubridae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Endangered

Among North America's rarest snakes, the Louisiana Pine Snake's small population size is the result of its highly specific habitat requirements and the resulting sensitivity to human-driven habitat changes that comes with them; members of this species feed primarily on Baird's Pocket Gophers (a specific species of burrowing rodent,) and almost always live in abandoned Baird's Pocket Gopher burrows (often after having eaten the burrows creator,) and as such in areas where Baird's Pocket Gophers are not present Lousiana Pine Snakes cannot survive. Native to western Lousiana and eastern Texas, members of this species do best in pine forests (particularly those dominated by a specific species of pine, Pinus palustris, forests of which are noted to generally support high levels of biodiversity as a result of the loose canopies they form which allow many smaller species of plants to coexist with them,) and spend most of their lives underground, rarely travelling far from their stolen burrows. They emerge from their burrows mainly during the mid-day to hunt (targeting rabbits, frogs and other rodents when Baird's Pocket Gophers are scarce,) but otherwise remain concealed underground in order to avoid predation and unusually high or low temperatures; during the winter, when the weather becomes colder and prey becomes scarcer, they travel deeper into a Baird's Pocket Gopher burrow and hibernate until the early spring.

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Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/29041-Pituophis-ruthveni

[snake-spotted]

You just reblogged my little ball python Philomène, have a look at her house mate Albertine ! She's a southern pine snake (pituophis melanoleucus mugitus)

hello!! my gosh what lovely snakes you have!! Albertine is sooo pretty look at those scales!!!!

[lmtyl]

thinking about snakes I would want as pets

ranked from "most likely" to "least likely"

Western Hognose, Heterodon nasicus

Cornsnake, Pantherophis guttatus

California Kingsnake, Lampropeltis californiae

Rubber Boa, Charina bottae

Bullsnake, Pituophis catenifer sayi

False Water Cobra, Hydrodynastes gigas

(all images from Wikimedia Commons)

[crudlynaturephotos]

[thepartyponies]

“bullsnake” is just another common name for Pituophis catenifer but is sometimes used to refer to certain localities/subspecies. taxonomy is a mess

Ah. there you go. I had the impression that bullsnake was a word used for the kinds they've got more east of here

[gonodactylus]

Smooth greensnake (Opheodrys vernalis) Bullsnake (Pituophis catenifer)

Anoka County, MN

[herpsandbirds]

Pacific Gopher Snake (Pituophis c. catenifer), family Colubridae, Joshua Tree National Park, CA, USA

photograph by Carmen Aurrecoechea | NPS

[sunfish-exotics]

She's very expressive

(p ruthveni)