It covers EVERY known form of the genus Pituophis in the world, the gopher snakes, pine snakes, and bull snakes. I had to remake the site because its original domain changed owners. My spot is now: Pituophisbriggs.com Pat Briggs holds up his male young adult Louisiana Pine Snake Pituophis ruthveni Parent stock coming from Bienville, Parish Louisiana. All Known Pituophis in the World 1. Pituophis catenifer affinis (Hollowell, 1852) Sonora

MEXICAN STRIPED BULL SNAKE or LINED BULL SNAKE or CINCUATE BULL SNAKE (My four-year-old male with good 75-inch length at around 4 years) Photo By Patrick Houston Briggs MEXICAN LINED OR STRIPED BULL SNAKE or CINCUATE BULL SNAKE Pituophis lineaticollis gibsoni As early researchers were becoming familiar with the ophidian form of Pituophis lineaticollis gibsoni, they eventually lumped it into the same spec

GUATEMALA BULL SNAKE Photo By Patrick Houston Briggs (An old male from Guatemala, Courtesy to Tom Moisi) Pituophis lineaticollis gibsoni GUATEMALA BULL SNAKE As early researchers were becoming familiar with the ophidian form of Pituophis lineaticollis gibsoni, they eventually lumped it into the same species as deppei and considered it a subspecies known as Pituophis deppei gibsoni with Pituophis deppei lineaticollis , Pituophis deppei deppei , and Pituophis deppei

Great Basin Gopher Snake Pituophis catenifer deserticola Adult male 4 feet 2 inches closeup right side head study Locality: Hurricane-Washington County Utah Digital Image by Patrick Houston Briggs May 29, 2024 Great Basin Gopher Snake Pituophis catenifer deserticola Adult male 4 feet 2 inches total body Locality: Hurricane-Washington County Utah Digital Image by Patrick Houston Briggs May 29, 2024 Great Basin Gopher Snake Pituophis catenifer deserticola Adult male 4 feet

Pituophis catenifer coronalis CORONADO ISLAND GOPHER SNAKE This now presumed extinct ophidian was collected with a small young bird in...

Pituophis catenifer sayi This Bull snake individual wild caught in 2009 "WC" is an excelllent adult male bicolored dark or black and...

SAN MARTIN ISLAND GOPHER SNAKE Photo By Patrick Houston Briggs (An old male from the John Ginter collection) San Martin Island gopher snake (Klauber, 1946) ( Pituophis catenifer fuliginatus ) By Patrick Briggs The San Martin Island Gopher Snake is found on an island (Isla San Martin) off the northwestern coast of Baja California at Lat. 30 degrees 29' N. The island is only a mile in diameter and 2.5 miles from the coast. It is volcanic with many breeding sea birds; the

CEDRO ISLAND GOPHER SNAKE or Topera de la Isla Cedros Pituophis insulanus es una especie de serpiente de la familia Colubridae. Es endémica de la Isla Cedros y no habita en ningún otro lugar. Su hábitat natural son de matorrales áridos (arid shrub lands) y semiáridos y en matorrales con chaparrales. By Guía de Serpientes de Baja California website NaturaLista Keivfields 016 CEDRO ISLAND GOPHER SNAKE Cedro Island Gopher Snake- Pituophis

MID-BAJA CALIFORNIA GOPHER SNAKE Patrick Houston Briggs, Courtesy John Ginter MID-BAJA CALIFORNIA GOPHER SNAKE (Blainville, 1835 for vertebralis) (Klauber, 1946 for bimaris) Pituophis vertebralis bimaris = (Pituophis catenifer bimaris) By Patrick Briggs When additional material that seemed significant became available to better describe Pituophis relationships occurring in Baja California, Laurence M. Klauber, Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians for the Society of Natur

CAPE or BAJA CALIFORNIA GOPHER SNAKE Photo by Patrick Houston Briggs, Courtesy John Ginter The Cape or San Lucan Gopher Snake (Topera de Baja California) The specific and latter race of the scientific epethit Pituophis vertebralis vertebralis gets its name VERTEBRALIS from the Latin modification of the word which means "pertaining to the back". Since the time Klauber recognized two races, the Cape gopher snake (sometimes called the San Lucan gopher snake) had been con

CHANNEL ISLANDS GOPHER SNAKE Pituophis catenifer pumilis From the SANTA CRUZ ISLAND of the Channel Islands National Park archipelago....

PACIFIC GOPHER SNAKE Image by P. Briggs Pituophis catenifer catenifer PACIFIC GOPHER SNAKE 0.1 Adult 6 feet 9 inches in length. HANFORD IN KINGS COUNTY CALIFORNIA Photo by Patrick Houston Briggs Pituophis catenifer catenifer PACIFIC GOPHER SNAKE 0.1 HANFORD IN KINGS COUNTY CALIFORNIA Photo by Patrick Houston Briggs Pacific Gopher Snake Pituophis catenifer catenifer (Kings County locality) By Patrick Houston Briggs The Pacific gopher snake is a common constricting snake a

LOUISIANA PINE SNAKE Pituophis ruthveni By Patrick Houston Briggs The Louisiana pine snake is considered to be the rarest snake in North...

FLORIDA or SOUTHERN PINE SNAKE By Pat Briggs SOUTHERN or FLORIDA PINE SNAKE (Calhoun County Florida) Image taken by SAM DAY, April 8, 2018 Description of Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus The Southern Pine Snake or Florida Pine Snake Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus gets its subspecific epithit from the Latin modification of mugitus which means "the bellower" referring to its intense defensive hissing. Listed as a "species of special concern" by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Con

SAN DIEGO GOPHER SNAKE Arroyo Verde Park in Ventura, California Wild Collected Photo by Patrick Houston Briggs THE...

NORTHERN PINE SNAKE Image by Patrick H. Briggs Courtesy Lloyd and Sunnie Lemke Northern Pine Snake by Patrick Briggs The Northern Pine S nake Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus is a light colored snake with dark or bold pattern markings and blotches. Infact, its scientific name is from the Greek melano which means dark or black, and the Greek leucus meaning white or light; therefore, a light against dark pine snake. It may have light ground colors such as gray, cream, tan

Northern Mexican Pine Snake adult male red & black-blotched phase Image by Patrick Houston Briggs, Courtesy to Pete Marshall NORTHERN...

MEXICAN PINE SNAKE Pituophis deppei deppei Durango Mountains Mexico locality Photograph by Patrick Houston Briggs 2000 Courtesy to Tom...

Black Pine Snake Pat Briggs with a Black Pine snake Photo by Patrick H. Briggs Pituophis melanoleucus lodingi BLACK PINE SNAKE adult Digital Image by Patrick Houston Briggs Pituophis melanoleucus lodingi BLACK PINE SNAKE adult Digital Image by Patrick Houston Briggs Jerry Hartley with a Black Pine Snake and Pat Briggs with a Kankakee County Bull Snake Photo by Pituophis melanoleucus lodingi BLACK PINE SNAKE hatching Digital Image by Patrick Houston Briggs Pituophis melanol

SONORAN GOPHER SNAKE Deming New Mexico, Luna County locality By Patrick Houston Briggs, courtesy Rick Lewis SONORAN GOPHER SNAKE Deming...