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 Hem ...

s of the genus '' Pantherophis''. 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'' (foxsnake or western fox snake or eastern fox snake), originally described by Baird and Girard in 1853 * '' Pantherophis ramspotti'' (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