Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Colubridae > Pituophis > Pituophis melanoleucus

Pituophis melanoleucus (Eastern Pine Snake; Bull snake)

Synonyms: Churchillia bellona; Coluber melanoleucus; Pituophis lodingi; Pityophis melanoleucus

Wikipedia Abstract

Pituophis melanoleucus is a harmless (nonvenomous) colubrid species endemic to the southeastern United States. Three subspecies are currently recognized, including the nominate subspecies described here.
View Wikipedia Record: Pituophis melanoleucus

Infraspecies

Pituophis melanoleucus lodingi (Black pine snake) (Attributes)
Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus (Northern pine snake)
Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus (Florida pine snake) (Attributes)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  14.125 lbs (6.407 kg)
Gestation [1]  60 days
Litter Size [1]  6
Maximum Longevity [2]  22 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name Location  Website 
West Gulf Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna (High Terraces Type) United States (Louisiana, Texas)

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Aquila chrysaetos (Golden Eagle)[4]
Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk)[4]
Buteo regalis (Ferruginous Hawk)[4]
Buteo swainsoni (Swainson's Hawk)[4]
Canis latrans (Coyote)[4]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Dipodomys deserti, Troy L. Best, Nancy J. Hildreth, and Clyde Jones, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 339, pp. 1-8 (1989)
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Resources of a Snake Community in Prairie-Woodland Habitat of Northeastern Kansas, Henry S. Fitch, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, Wildlife Research Report 13: 83-98 (1982)
♦ 6Sciurus niger, John L. Koprowski, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 479, pp. 1-9 (1994)
♦ 7Tamias merriami, Troy L. Best and Nancy J. Granai, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 476, pp. 1-9 (1994)
♦ 8Spermophilus townsendii, Eric A. Rickart, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 268, pp. 1-6 (1987)
♦ 9Spermophilus tereticaudus, Kristina A. Ernest and Michael A. Mares, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 274, pp. 1-9 (1987)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0