Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Colubridae > Pantherophis > Pantherophis spiloidesPantherophis spiloides (Gray Rat Snake)Synonyms: Coluber obsoletus lemniscatus (heterotypic); Elaphe obsoleta spiloides; Elaphe spiloides; Elaphis holbrookii; Elaphis spiloides; Scotophis confinis; Scotophis spiloides The gray ratsnake or gray rat snake (Pantherophis spiloides), also known as the midlands ratsnake or chicken snake, is a member of the genus Pantherophis in the subfamily Colubrinae. Within the genus Pantherophis, which includes ratsnakes, corn snakes, and fox snakes, the gray ratsnake is one of ten species. |
| Adult Weight [1] | 14.465 lbs (6.561 kg) |  | | Female Maturity [1] | 4 years | | Male Maturity [1] | 4 years | | | Gestation [1] | 74 days | | Litter Size [1] | 14 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 34 years |
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Habitat Vegetation Classification |
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Interior Low Plateau Mesic Bottomland Forest |
United States (Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio) |
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Maple - Ash - Elm Swamp |
Canada (Ontario); United States (Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan) |
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Overcup Oak - Sweetgum Bottomland Forest |
United States (Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana) |
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Pin Oak - Post Oak Lowland Flatwoods |
United States (Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Arkansas) |
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Silver Maple - Sugarberry - Pecan Floodplain Forest |
United States (Tennessee, Illinois, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kentucky, Indiana) |
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Swamp Chestnut Oak - Sweetgum Floodplain Forest |
United States (Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Indiana, Missouri, Illinois) |
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Willow Oak Bottomland Flatwoods Forest |
United States (Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkansas) |
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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 |
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
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