NORTHERN PINE SNAKE
Image by Patrick H. Briggs Courtesy Lloyd and Sunnie Lemke
Northern Pine Snake
by Patrick Briggs
The Northern Pine Snake Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus is a light colored snake with dark or bold pattern markings and blotches. Infact, its scientific name is from the Greek melano which means dark or black, and the Greek leucus meaning white or light; therefore, a light against dark pine snake. It may have light ground colors such as gray, cream, tan, yellow, or white against reddish-brown, brown, or black blotching and markings. The dorsal blotches numbers 29 or less and no stripe extends backward from the rear of the eye. This is a snake with a pointed snout that grows to be a robust and powerful constrictor able to exceed 7 feet in length.
Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus NORTHERN PINE SNAKE 0.1 adult
Digital Image taken by Patrick Houston Briggs Courtesy Rick Lewis
Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus NORTHERN PINE SNAKE 0.1 adult
Digital Image taken by Patrick Houston Briggs Courtesy Rick Lewis
Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus NORTHERN PINE SNAKE 1.0 adult
Digital Image taken by Patrick Houston Briggs Courtesy Rick Lewis
Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus NORTHERN PINE SNAKE 1.0 adult
Digital Image taken by Patrick Houston Briggs Courtesy Rick Lewis
Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus NORTHERN PINE SNAKE 1.0 adult
Digital Image taken by Patrick Houston Briggs Courtesy Rick Lewis
RANGE MAP FOR SNAKES OF THE GENUS PITUOPHIS by Patrick Houston Briggs
Distribution:Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus: S North Carolina west through South Carolina to northern Georgia, E Tennessee, SE Kentucky, south into Alabama. Disjunct populations in S New Jersey, WC Virginia, adjacent West Virginia, C Kentuca.ky, SW Tennessee. Intergrades with mugitus in South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.Type locality: “la Caroline méridionale et de la Floríde.” Restricted to Carolina by Barbour, 1921b: 117. Further restricted to Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Kentucky Northern Pine snake video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31MAYJt6wDo
Jersey Northern pine snake: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hghjim/2044756795/
GREAT INFORMATION BELOW ON Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus
Male Northern pine snakes battle for dominance: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lvulgaris/3494355093/in/photostream/
Albino Northern pine snake: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hghjim/2678720614/in/set-
Adult albino Northern pine snake: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hghjim/8513564473/in/set-72157603233540189
Red Morph- Northern pine snake: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hghjim/2045549544/in/set-72157603233540189
“Paradox” Northern pine snake: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hghjim/2044764487/in/set-72157603233540189
Click this to see a beautiful but strange mutation patternless morph of the Northern pine snake: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hghjim/8504367678/in/set-72157603233540189
New Jersy pine snakes: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michiganherper/7391281444/
GREAT INFORMATION ON NORTHERN PINE SNAKE NESTING
Nesting info on the Jersey pine snake: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1564642?uid=3739560&uid=2134&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21102046130751
New Jersey pine snake conservation: http://endangerednj.blogspot.com/2009/12/continued-pine-snake-protection.html
Northern pine snake info: http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/ensp/somsept.htm
Northern pine snake with her eggs: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hghjim/5681490499/in/photostream/
Rusty morph Northern pine snake: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hghjim/8503260231/sizes/l/in/set-72157603233540189
lNorthern pine snake info: http://www.marylandzoo.org/animals-
conservation/reptiles/northern-pine-snake/
Northern pine snake beauty: http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1985433,1985433
Wild New Jersy pine snake female found by Michigan herpers: http://herpingmichigan.blogspot.com/2012/06/trail-continues.htm
Effects of egg incubation temps on newborn pine snakes: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00295199#page-1
Rick Lewis, top Pituophis breeder for Central California with a Northern Pine Snake.
Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus
Digital Image by Patrick Houston Briggs
Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus NORTHERN PINE SNAKE 1.0 adult patternless
Digital Image taken by Patrick Houston Briggs Courtesy Rick Lewis
Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus NORTHERN PINE SNAKE 1.0 adult
Digital Image taken by Patrick Houston Briggs Courtesy Rick Lewis
Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus NORTHERN PINE SNAKE 1.0 adult
Digital Image taken by Patrick Houston Briggs Courtesy Rick Lewis
Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus NORTHERN PINE SNAKE 1.0 adult albino
Digital Image taken by Patrick Houston Briggs Courtesy Lloyd Lemke
Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus NORTHERN PINE SNAKE
Aiken County South Carolina
Photograph taken by Gerry Salmon
Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus NORTHERN PINE SNAKE neonate
Image by Patrick H. Briggs
Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus NORTHERN PINE SNAKE neonate
By Patrick H. Briggs
Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus NORTHERN PINE SNAKE 1.0 adult patternless
Digital Image taken by Patrick Houston Briggs Courtesy Rick Lewis
Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus NORTHERN PINE SNAKE 1.0 adult patternless
Close up left side head Digital Image taken by Patrick Houston Briggs Courtesy Rick Lewis
Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus NORTHERN PINE SNAKE 1.0 adult patternless
Digital Image taken by Patrick Houston Briggs Courtesy Rick Lewis
Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus NORTHERN PINE SNAKE 1.0 adult patternless
Digital Image taken by Patrick Houston Briggs Courtesy Rick Lewis
Scutelation:
Mid-body Scales 27-31
Supralabials 7-9
Ventrals 205-249
Infralabials 10-13
Caudals 52-66
Postoculars 2-4
Anal Single (Entire)
Preoculars 1-2
Prefrontals 4
Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus NORTHERN PINE SNAKE 1.0 adult
Digital Image taken by Patrick Houston Briggs Courtesy Lloyd and Sunnie Lemke
Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus NORTHERN PINE SNAKE 1.0 adult patternless
Digital Image taken by Patrick Houston Briggs Courtesy Rick Lewis
