List of snakes of Oklahoma

This is a list of snakes found in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

Snakes of Oklahoma

Non-venomous snakes

• Arizona elegans —glossy snake
• Carphophis vermis —western worm snake
• Cemophora coccinea —scarlet snake
• Coluber constrictor —racer
• Diadophis punctatus —ring-neck snake
• Farancia abacura —mud snake
• Heterodon nasicus —western hognose snake
• H. platyrhinos —eastern hognose snake
• Hypsiglena jani —Texas night snake
• Lampropeltis calligaster —prairie kingsnake
• L. gentilis —western milk snake
• L. holbrooki —speckled kingsnake
• Liodytes rigida — glossy crayfish snake
• Masticophis flagellum —coachwhip snake
• Nerodia erythrogaster —plain-bellied water snake
• N. fasciata —banded water snake
• N. rhombifera —diamond-back water snake ^[1]
• N. sipedon —northern and midland water snake
• Opheodrys aestivus —keeled green or rough green snake
• Pantherophis emoryi —great plains rat snake
• P. obsoletus —western rat snake
• Pituophis catenifer —bullsnake
• Regina grahami —Graham's crayfish snake
• Rena dulcis —Texas blind snake
• Rhinocheilus lecontei —long-nosed snake
• Sonora episcopa —Great Plains ground snake
• Storeria dekayi —Dekay's brown snake
• S. occipitomaculata —red bellied snake
• Tantilla gracilis —flat-headed snake ^[2]
• T. nigriceps —black-headed snake
• Thamnophis cyrtopsis —black-necked garter snake
• T. elegans —wandering garter snake
• T. marcianus —checkered garter snake
• T. proximus —western ribbon snake
• T. radix —plains garter snake
• T. sirtalis —common garter snake
• Tropidoclonion lineatum —lined snake
• Virginia striatula —rough earth snake
• V. valeriae —smooth earth snake

Venomous snakes

• Agkistrodon contortrix —eastern copperhead
• A. laticinctus—broad-banded copperhead
• A. piscivorus —cottonmouth or water moccasin
• Crotalus atrox —western diamond-back rattlesnake
• C. horridus —timber rattlesnake
• C. viridis —prairie rattlesnake
• Sistrurus tergeminus —western massasauga rattlesnake
• S. miliarius —western pygmy rattlesnake

References

1. Tu, Ming-Chung; Hutchison, Victor H. (1995). "Thermoregulatory Behavior Is Not Influenced by Sex or Ecdysis in the Diamondback Water Snake, Nerodia rhombifera" . Journal of Herpetology. 29 (1): 146–148. doi:10.2307/1565104. ISSN   0022-1511.
2. McAllister, Chris T.; Roehrs, Zachary P.; Seville, R. Scott (2012). "A New Species of Caryospora (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from the Flathead Snake, Tantilla gracilis (Ophidia: Colubridae), In Southeastern Oklahoma". Journal of Parasitology. 98 (3). American Society of Parasitologists: 640–642. doi: 10.1645/ge-2975.1 . ISSN   0022-3395. PMC   3523668 .