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Gopher Snake

Pituophis catenifer

Description:

The Pacific gopher snake is a subspecies of large nonvenomous colubrid snake native to the western coast of the United States. Wikipedia

Habitat:

Southern California coast.

Notes:

My brother almost stepped on this snake as he was trail running. This is as close as we dared to venture since he did not know if it was a rattle snake. The picture was taken in Palos Verdes California, on a preseve.

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JeffreyDuby
JeffreyDuby 10 years ago
Gopher Snake
Pituophis catenifer


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2 Comments

LisaPowers
LisaPowers 10 years ago

Beautiful spotting! Please be sure to add this to the Snakes of the United States – CSC mission to help with their citizen science project!
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1202...

bonello.giovanni
bonello.giovanni 10 years ago

Yea it was on the eucalyptus trail I believe

bonello.giovanni
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bonello.giovanni

L.A., California, USA

Spotted on Jun 5, 2013
Submitted on Jun 25, 2013

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