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The Louisiana pine snake (Pituophis ruthveni) is a species of large, non-venomous, constrictor in the family Colubridae. [3] [4] This powerful snake is notable because of its large eggs and small clutch sizes.
The Memphis Zoo is celebrating the final Louisiana pine snake hatchling of the season. The zoo breeds the snakes to be released back into the wild as the species faces declining numbers, due ...
The Memphis Zoo is celebrating the final Louisiana pine snake hatchling of the season. The zoo breeds the snakes to be released back into the wild as the species faces declining numbers, due ...
pine snake: P. m. lodingi Blanchard, 1924 – black pine snake; P. m. melanoleucus (Daudin, 1803) – northern pine snake; P. m. mugitus Barbour, 1921 – Florida pine snake; southeastern United States Pituophis ruthveni Stull, 1929: Louisiana pine snake: west-central Louisiana and East Texas Pituophis vertebralis (Blainville, 1835) Cape gopher ...
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Louisiana's forests offer a mix of oak, pine, beech, black walnut, and cypress trees. In the Piney Woods in the Ark-La-Tex-region, mammals such as the North American cougar, gray fox, feral hogs , and snakes such as the western cottonmouth, the western worm snake, the Louisiana pine snake, as well as other animals are common. [4]
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Snake diversity is relatively high in the Piney Woods for a temperate area of its size, with well over 30 species ranging into the region. The Louisiana pinesnake (Pituophis ruthveni) is endemic and Slowinski's cornsnake (Pantherophis slowinskii) is nearly endemic.