Gopher Snake
Pituophis catenifer
- Class
- Reptile
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Pituophis
- Also known as
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Gopher Snake research
119 published papers in the HerpAtlas library. Most cited below, or see the latest research →
- Dietary Responses of Three Raptor Species to Changing Prey Densities in a Natural Environment
Journal of Animal Ecology · 1988 · cited 183 times
- Thermal Dependence of Striking and Prey Capture by Gopher Snakes
Copeia · 1974 · cited 140 times
- Feeding ecology of North American gopher snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae)
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2002 · cited 94 times
- Geographic Variation, Convergent Crypsis and Mimicry in Gopher Snakes (Pituophis melanoleucus) and Western Rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis)
Journal of Herpetology · 1985 · cited 89 times
- Snake‐directed Behavior by Snake Naive and Experienced California Ground Squirrels in a Simulated Burrow
Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie · 1978 · cited 75 times
- Snake Species Discrimination and the Role of Olfactory Cues in the Snake-Directed Behavior of the California Ground Squirrel
Behaviour · 1978 · cited 74 times
- Reptile and Amphibian Responses to Large-Scale Wildfires in Southern California
Journal of Herpetology · 2010 · cited 66 times
- SNAKE-DIRECTED ANTIPREDATOR BEHAVIOR OF ROCK SQUIRRELS (SPERMOPHILUS VARIEGATUS): POPULATION DIFFERENCES AND SNAKE-SPECIES DISCRIMINATION
Behaviour · 2001 · cited 66 times
Gopher Snake natural history notes
Field and captive observations published in Herpetological Review's Natural History Notes. Each is a single observation, summarized by us, with a link to the original.
Agonistic mobbing attack
Richard M. Engeman · 2018 · Herpetological Review 49(1): 139 · Read the note
Arboreality
2014 · Herpetological Review 45(2): 342 · Read the note
Diet
2023 · Herpetological Review 54(2): 318 · Read the note
2022 · Herpetological Review 53(2): 346–347 · Read the note
2015 · Herpetological Review 46(2): 276 · Read the note
2014 · Herpetological Review 45(2): 341–342 · Read the note
Howard O. Clark · 2013 · Herpetological Review 44(4): 696–697 · Read the note
Charles D. Hathcock · 2013 · Herpetological Review 44(3): 526 · Read the note
Elevation
2020 · Herpetological Review 51(2): 358 · Read the note
Injury / cervical perforation
Jorge A. Zúñiga-Baos and Luis E. Vera-Pérez · 2020 · Herpetological Review 51(2): 358–359 · Read the note
Maximum length
James R. Lee · 2007 · Herpetological Review 38(2): 209–210 · Read the note
Movement
2025 · Herpetological Review 56(3): 330 · Read the note
Nesting
2007 · Herpetological Review 38(1): 92–93 · Read the note
Predation
Randall D. Babb and E. Chuck Busboom · 2013 · Herpetological Review 44(4): 696 · Read the note
Joshua M. Kapfer · 2005 · Herpetological Review 36(3): 326 · Read the note
Prey size
2003 · Herpetological Review 34(2): 154 · Read the note
Scavenging
2014 · Herpetological Review 45(1): 146–147 · Read the note
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