It is currently considered a subspecies of the gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer).

A scale count is required to distinguish juvenile bullsnakes from juvenile gopher snakes.

One day, foraging after losing a tussle with a feisty trout, he found a dead, four-foot-long gopher snake in his path.

Lily and Noah got to pet a small gopher snake.

What I released on my property were gopher snakes - nonpoisonous snakes that are beneficial to man because they eat gophers.

Most information gathered about the location of cape gopher snakes is anecdotal, but the area in which they range is incredibly diverse.

It was a gopher snake, a common nonpoisonous snake sometimes mistaken for a rattler because of its coloring and behavior.

However, they are smaller than gopher snakes, with narrow, pointed heads, and a variety of skin patterns and colors.

He goes on to "become friends" with a gopher snake, saying "We are compatible.

A gopher snake peeked at them from beneath a clump of prickly pears, then disappeared.