Diet Overlap

Pituophis catenifer (Gopher Snake)
Arizona elegans (arenicola)

Common Diet

Dipodomys merriami (Merriam's kangaroo rat)
Dipodomys ordii (Ord's kangaroo rat)
Uta stansburiana (Side-blotched Lizard)

Common Habitat

Arizona Mountains forests
Baja California desert
California coastal sage and chaparral
California Floristic Province
California interior chaparral and woodlands
California montane chaparral and woodlands
Central and Southern mixed grasslands
Chihuahuan desert
Colorado Plateau shrublands
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands
Meseta Central matorral
Mesoamerica
Mojave desert
Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests
Sonoran desert
Tamaulipan matorral
Tamaulipan mezquital
Texas blackland prairies
Veracruz moist forests
Western Gulf Coastal grasslands
Western short grasslands

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Feeding ecology of North American gopher snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae), JAVIER A. RODRÍGUEZ-ROBLES, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2002, 77, 165–183
♦ 2Food Habit of the Glossy Snake, Arizona elegans, with Comparisons to the Diet of Sympatric Long-nosed Snakes, Rhinocheilus lecontei, Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles, Christopher J. Bell, Harry W. Greene, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 87-92, 1999