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Great Basin Gopher Snake

Pituophis catenifer deserticola

Classification

Pituophis catenifer deserticola, commonly known by its standardized English name since the 1950s, the Great Basin gophersnake, is a subspecies of nonvenomous colubrid snake ranging in parts of western United States and adjacent southwestern Canada. Geographic range This snake can be found in the United States throughout most of Nevada and Utah and in adjacent areas of southwest Wyoming, western Colorado, northwest New Mexico, northern Arizona, parts of southeast California, southern Idaho, and northward into eastern Oregon and Washington. It occurs in extreme southcentral British…

Distribution

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United States of America · 6,270Canada · 587