Diet Overlap

Lampropeltis gentilis (Scarlet kingsnake)
Pituophis catenifer (Gopher Snake)

Common Diet

Peromyscus maniculatus (deer mouse)

Common Habitat

Central and Southern mixed grasslands
Central forest-grasslands transition
Central tall grasslands
Central U.S. hardwood forests
Chihuahuan desert
Colorado Plateau shrublands
Edwards Plateau savanna
Flint Hills tall grasslands
Great Basin shrub steppe
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands
Meseta Central matorral
Mesoamerica
Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands
Nebraska Sand Hills mixed grasslands
Northern mixed grasslands
Northern short grasslands
Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests
Sinaloan dry forests
Tamaulipan matorral
Tamaulipan mezquital
Texas blackland prairies
Upper Midwest forest-savanna transition
Veracruz dry forests
Veracruz moist forests
Wasatch and Uinta montane forests
Western Gulf Coastal grasslands
Western short grasslands

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Resources 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)
♦ 2Feeding ecology of North American gopher snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae), JAVIER A. RODRÍGUEZ-ROBLES, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2002, 77, 165–183