#1768 · 🦎 reptiles

Great Plains Ratsnake

Pantherophis emoryi

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Bryan Box · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © johnwilliams · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Marco Zozaya · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © johnwilliams · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © tom spinker · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Thomas Belford · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Chris Harrison · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Fernando Toledo y Ana Karen Fernandez · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Pantherophis emoryi , commonly known as the Great Plains rat snake , is a species of nonvenomous rat snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to the central part of the United States, from Missouri to Nebraska, to Colorado, south to Texas, and into northern Mexico.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,493iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
5,493 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Spencer Fullerton Baird in 1853 (173 years ago).