List of snakes of Oklahoma
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This is a list of snakes found in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.
Snakes of Oklahoma
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Non-venomous snakes
- Arizona elegans—glossy snake
- Carphophis amaenus—worm snake
- Cemophora coccinea—scarlet snake
- Coluber constrictor—Southern Black Racer
- Diadophis punctatus—ring-neck snake
- Elaphe guttata—great plains rat snake
- E. obsoleta—black rat snake
- Farancia abacura—mud snake
- Heterodon nasicus—western hognose snake
- H. platyrhinos—eastern hognose snake
- Hypsiglena torquata—Texas night snake
- Lampropeltis calligaster—prairie kingsnake
- L. getulus—speckled and desert kingsnakes
- L. triangulum—milk snake
- Leptotyphlops dulcis—blind snake
- Liodytes rigida — glossy water snake
- Masticophis flagellum—coachwhip snake
- Nerodia erythrogaster—yellow-bellied and blotched water snake
- N. fasciata—broad-banded water snake
- N. rhombifera—diamond-back water snake[1]
- N. sipedon—northern and midland water snake
- Opheodrys aestivus—keeled green or rough green snake
- Pituophis catenifer sayi—bullsnake
- Regina grahami—Graham's water snake
- Rhinocheilus lecontei—long-nosed snake
- Sonora semiannulata—great plains ground snake
- Storeria dekayi—brown snake
- S. d. texana-Texas brown snake
- S. occipitomaculata—red bellied snake
- Tantilla gracilis—flat-headed snake [2]
- T. nigriceps—black-headed snake
- Thamnophis cyrtopsis—black-necked garter snake
- T. elegans—wandering garter snake
- T. marcianus—checkered garter snake
- T. proximus—western ribbon snake
- T. radix—plains garter snake
- T. sirtalis—red-sided and Texas garter snakes
- Tropidoclonion lineatum—lined snake
- Virginia striatula—rough earth snake
- V. valeriae—smooth earth snake
Venomous snakes
- Agkistrodon contortrix—copperhead
- A. piscivorus—cottonmouth or water moccasin
- Crotalus atrox—western diamond-back rattlesnake
- C. horridus—timber rattlesnake
- C. viridis—prairie rattlesnake
- Sistrurus catenatus—western massasauga rattlesnake
- S. miliarius—western pygmy rattlesnake
References
[edit]- ^ Tu, Ming-Chung; Hutchison, Victor H. (1995). "Thermoregulatory Behavior Is Not Influenced by Sex or Ecdysis in the Diamondback Water Snake, Nerodia rhombifera". Journal of Herpetology. 29 (1): 146–148. doi:10.2307/1565104. ISSN 0022-1511.
- ^ McAllister, Chris T.; Roehrs, Zachary P.; Seville, R. Scott (2012). "A New Species of Caryospora (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from the Flathead Snake, Tantilla gracilis (Ophidia: Colubridae), In Southeastern Oklahoma". Journal of Parasitology. 98 (3). American Society of Parasitologists: 640–642. doi:10.1645/ge-2975.1. ISSN 0022-3395. PMC 3523668.