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Pantherophis obsoletus, also known commonly as the western rat snake, black rat snake, pilot black snake, or simply black snake, [4] is a nonvenomous species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to central North America. There are no subspecies that are recognized as being valid. [5] Its color variations include the Texas ...
A black kingsnake consuming an Eastern Garter Snake. Black kingsnakes occupy a wide variety of habitats and are one of the most frequently encountered species by humans in some states. Preferred habitats include abandoned farmsteads, debris piles, edges of floodplains, and thick brush around streams and swamps. [3]
Eastern rat snake (subadult), Pantherophis quadrivittatus, in Maryland P. alleghaniensis is found in the United States east of the Apalachicola River in Florida, east of the Chattahoochee River in Georgia, east of the Appalachian Mountains, north to southeastern New York and western Vermont, eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, south to the Florida Keys.
Black snake (firework), a type of firework; Governor Blacksnake (1760–1859), a Seneca chief also known as Chainbreaker; Black Snake (Shawnee), a leader in the defeat of Colonel William Crawford's army during the Crawford expedition of 1782; Black Snake, made in 1973 and directed by Russ Meyer; Black Snake, Kentucky
Eating a southern leopard frog. The southern black racer is a predator that relies on lizards, insects, moles, birds, eggs, small snakes, rodents, and frogs. Despite its specific name constrictor (scientific name: Coluber constrictor), the racer is more likely to suffocate or crush its victim into the ground, rather than coiling around it in typical constrictor fashion.
The black swamp snake is a small, thin snake, usually 25–38 cm (10–15 in) long (including tail); the record size is 55 cm (22 in). [7] [8] It is uniformly black on the dorsum, with a bright orange or red belly.
The red-bellied black snake was first described and named by English naturalist George Shaw in Zoology of New Holland (1794) as Coluber porphyriacus. [4] Incorrectly assuming it was harmless and not venomous, [5] he wrote, "This beautiful snake, which appears to be unprovided with tubular teeth or fangs, and consequently not of a venomous nature, is three, sometimes four, feet in nature."
The northern black racer (Coluber constrictor constrictor) is a subspecies of the eastern racer (Coluber constrictor), a nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae.Their geographic range extends from southern Maine to northern Georgia and westward to central Kentucky and eastern Ohio.