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Fox snake or foxsnake is the common name given to some North American
Fox snake or foxsnake is the common name given to some North American rat snake
Rat snakes are members – along with kingsnakes, milk snakes, Oxybelis, vine snakes and indigo snakes – of the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. They are medium to large Constriction, constrictors and are found throughout much o ...
s of the genus ''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 fox snake, foxsnakes, and the cornsnakes. The genus, which contains 10 recognize ...
''. It is generally agreed that there are two such species, but three candidate species names have arisen for them:
* '' Pantherophis gloydi'' (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
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