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Fox snake
Fox
snake
or
foxsnake
is the common name given to some
North American
rat snakes
of the
genus
Pantherophis
. It is generally
agreed
that there are two such
species
, but three
candidate
species names
have
arisen
for them:
Pantherophis gloydi
, originally described by
Conant
in
1940
,
merged
with
P.
vulpinus
in
2011
Pantherophis vulpinus
, originally described by
Baird
and
Girard
in
1853
Pantherophis ramspotti
, originally described by Crother,
White
,
Savage
, Eckstut, Graham and
Gardner
in 2011