Louisiana Pine Snake

Louisiana Pine Snake

Taxobox
name = "Pituophis ruthveni"


status = EN
status_system = iucn3.1
trend = down
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
familia = Colubridae
genus = "Pituophis"
species = "P. ruthveni"
binomial = "Pituophis ruthveni"

The Louisiana pine snake (Pituophis ruthveni) is one of the rarest snakes in the United States. Yet the reptile is relatively abundant on a 30,000-acre (12,000-hectare) managed forest in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.


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