Diet Overlap

Common Diet

Sigmodon hispidus (hispid cotton rat)

Common Habitat

Central and Southern mixed grasslands
Central forest-grasslands transition
Central U.S. hardwood forests
Edwards Plateau savanna
Texas blackland prairies
Western Gulf Coastal grasslands

Attributes / relations provided by
1Sexual dimorphism in head shape and diet in the cottonmouth snake (Agkistrodon piscivorus), Shawn E. Vincent, Anthony Herrel and Duncan J. Irschick, J. Zool., Lond. (2004) 264, 53–59
2Feeding ecology of North American gopher snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae), JAVIER A. RODRÍGUEZ-ROBLES, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2002, 77, 165–183