Central ratsnake

For the species known as Gray's rat snake, see Platyceps ventromaculatus.

Central ratsnake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Pantherophis
Species:
P. alleghaniensis
Binomial name
Pantherophis alleghaniensis
(Holbrook, 1836)
Synonyms

  • Coluber alleghaniensis
    Holbrook, 1836
  • Elaphis spiloides
    A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854
  • Elaphe obsoleta spiloides
    — Conant & Collins, 1991
  • Elaphe spiloides
    — Burbrink, 2001
  • Pantherophis obsoletus spiloides
    — D. Schmidt & Kunz, 2005
  • Scotophis spiloides
    — Collins & Taggart, 2008
  • Pantherophis spiloides
    — Pyron & Burbrink, 2009

The central ratsnake (Pantherophis alleghaniensis), also commonly known as the black ratsnake, gray ratsnake, chicken snake, midland ratsnake, or pilot black snake, is a species of nonvenomous snake in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. The gray ratsnake is one of eight species within the American ratsnake genus Pantherophis.

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