title: List of snakes of Oklahoma
text: # 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 amaenus—worm snake
  * Cemophora coccinea—scarlet snake
  * Coluber constrictor—Southern Black Racer
  * Diadophis punctatus—ring-neck snake
  * Elaphe guttata—great plains rat snake
  * E. obsoleta—black rat snake
  * Farancia abacura—mud snake
  * Heterodon nasicus—western hognose snake
  * H. platyrhinos—eastern hognose snake
  * Hypsiglena torquata—Texas night snake
  * Lampropeltis calligaster—prairie kingsnake
  * L. getulus—speckled and desert kingsnakes
  * L. triangulum—milk snake
  * Leptotyphlops dulcis—blind snake
  * Liodytes rigida — glossy water snake
  * Masticophis flagellum—coachwhip snake
  * Nerodia erythrogaster—yellow-bellied and blotched water snake
  * N. fasciata—broad-banded water snake
  * N. rhombifera—diamond-back water snake
  * N. sipedon—northern and midland water snake
  * Opheodrys aestivus—keeled green or rough green snake
  * Pituophis catenifer sayi—bullsnake
  * Regina grahami—Graham's water snake
  * Rhinocheilus lecontei—long-nosed snake
  * Sonora semiannulata—great plains ground snake
  * Storeria dekayi—brown snake
  * S. d. texana-Texas brown snake
  * S. occipitomaculata—red bellied snake
  * Tantilla gracilis—flat-headed snake
  * 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—red-sided and Texas garter snakes
  * Tropidoclonion lineatum—lined snake
  * Virginia striatula—rough earth snake
  * V. valeriae—smooth earth snake
  
  Venomous snakes
  
  * Agkistrodon contortrix—copperhead
  * A. piscivorus—cottonmouth or water moccasin
  * Crotalus atrox—western diamond-back rattlesnake
  * C. horridus—timber rattlesnake
  * C. viridis—prairie rattlesnake
  * Sistrurus catenatus—western massasauga rattlesnake
  * S. miliarius—western pygmy rattlesnake
  