Animal scientific names

Scientific names

As an example of a scientific name in action, the scientific name for humans is Homo sapiens. In this example of a scientific name, the genus name is Homo and the species is sapiens. These terms are unique and no other species can have this same name. Scientific names are designed to tell you something about an animal's relationships with other animals.

Snake Scientific Names

  • California Kingsnake: Lampropelitis getula californiae
  • Albino Cali Kingsnake: Lampropeltis g. californiae
  • Dot-Dash Cali Kingsnake: Lampropelitis g. californiae
  • Prairie Kingsnake: Lampropelitis calligaster calligaster
  • Eastern Kingsnake: Lampropelitis getula getula
  • Brooks Kingsnake: Lampropelitis getula brooksi
  • Mole Kingsnake: Lampropelitis calligaster rhombomaculata
  • Florida Kingsnake: Lampropelitis getula floridana
  • Durango Mountain Kingsnakes: Lampropelitis mexicana greeri
  • Goins Kingsnake: Lampropelitis getula goini
  • Speckled Kingsnake: Lampropelitis getula holbrooki
  • South Florida Mole Kingsnake: Lampropelitis calligaster occipitolineata
  • Black Kingsnake: Lampropelitis getula nigra
  • Mexican Black Kingsnake: Lampropelitis getula nigrita
  • Desert Kingsnake: Lampropelitis getula splendida
  • Variable Kingsnake: Lampropelitis mexicana
  • Gray Banded Kingsnake: Lampropelitis alterna
  • Arizonia Mountain Kingsnake: Lampropelitis pyromelana pyromelana
  • Utah Mountain Kingsnake: Lampropelitis pyromelana infralabialis
  • Conant’s Milksnake: Lampropelitis triangulum conanti
  • Ruthenn’s Kingsnake: Lampropelitis ruthveni
  • Eastern Milksnake: Lampropelitis triangulum triangulum
  • Dixon’s Milksnake: Lampropelitis triangulum dixoni
  • Louisiana Milksnake: Lampropelitis triangulum amaura
  • Scarlet Kingsnake: Lampropelitis triangulum elapsoides
  • Mexican Milksnake: Lampropelitis triangulum annulata
  • Jalisco Milksnake: Lampropelitis triangulum arcifera
  • Blanchard’s Milksnake: Lampropelitis triangulum blanchardi
  • Pueblan Milksnake: Lampropelitis triangulum campbelli
  • New Mexico Milksnake: Lampropelitis triangulum celaenops

Python Scientific Names

  • Indian Python: Python molorus molorus
  • Macklot’s Python: Liasis mackloti
  • Childrens Python: Antaresia childreni
  • Spotted Python: Antarresia maculosa
  • Black-headed Python: Aspidites melanocephalus
  • Ringed Python: Bothrichilus boa
  • Pygmy Python: Antaresia perthensis
  • Burrowing Python: Calabaria reinhardtii
  • White Lipped Python: Leiopython albertisii
  • Boelen’s Python: Liasis boeleni
  • Jungle Carpet Python: Morelia spilota cheynei
  • Coastal Carpet Python: Morelia spilota mcdowelli
  • Inland Carpet Python: Morelia spilota metcalfei
  • Olive Python: Liasis olivaceus olivaceus
  • Amethystine Python: Morelia amethystina
  • Centralian Python: Morelia bredli
  • Rough Scaled Python: Morelia carinata
  • Diamond Python: Morelia spilota spilota
  • Green Tree Python: Morelia viridis
  • Ball Python: Python regius
  • Reticulate Python: Python reticulatus
  • Timor Python: Pyhton timorensis
  • Rock Python: Python sebae
  • Borneo Blood Python: Python curtus
  • Malaysian Blood Python: Python curtus curtus
  • Burmese Python: Python molurus bivittatus
  • Suratram Blood Python: Python curtus curtus

Boa Snake Scientific Names

  • Common Boa: Boa constrictor imperator
  • True Redtail Boa: Boa constrictor constrictor
  • Hogg Island Boa: Boa contrictor ssp
  • Dumeril Boa: Boa dumereli
  • Argentine Boa: Boa constrictor occidentalis
  • Madagascar Tree Boa: Boa mandrita
  • Madagascar Grond Boa: Boa madagascariensis
  • Pacific Tree Boa: Candoia bibronii
  • Pacific Ground Boa: Candoia carinata
  • Calabar Burrowing Boa: Charina reinhardtii
  • Rosy Boa: Charina trivirgata
  • Rubber Boa: Charina bottae
  • Cooks Tree Boa: Corallus hortulanus cooksi
  • Emerald Tree Boa: Corallus caninus
  • Cuban Boa: Epicrates angulifer
  • Brazilian Rainbow Boa: Epicrates cenchria cenchria
  • Rainbow Boa: Epicrates cenchria crassus
  • Rainbow Boa: Epicrates cenchria assisi
  • Rainbow Boa: Epicrates cenchria polylepsis
  • Rainbow Boa: Epicrates cenchria hygrophilus
  • Columbian Rainbow Boa: Epicrates cenchria maurus
  • Brown Sand Boa: Eryx johnii
  • Haitian Boa: Epicrates striatus
  • Desert Sand Boa: Eryx miliaris
  • Rough-scaled Sand Boa: Eryx conicus
  • Egyptian Sand Boa: Eryx colubrinus

Corn And Rat Snake Scientific Names

  • Corn Snake: Elaphe guttata guttata
  • Snow Corn snake: Elaphe guttata
  • Ghost Cornsnake: Elaphe guttata
  • Creamsicle Cornsnake: Elaphe guttata
  • Fantasy Corn: Elaphe guttata x E. o. spiloides
  • Amelanistic Fantasy Cornsnake: E. guttata x E.o. spiloides
  • Amelanistic Cornsnake: E. guttata
  • Candy Corn: Elaphe guttata
  • Motley Corn snake: Elaphe guttata
  • Western Fox Snake: Elaphe vulpina
  • Black Rat Snake: Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta
  • Great Plains Rat Snake: Elaphe guttata emoryi
  • Yellow Rat Snake: elaphe obsoleta quadrivittata
  • Everglades Rat Sanke: elaphe obsoleta rossalleni
  • Baird’s Rat Snake: Elaphe bairdi
  • Eastern Fox Snake: Elaphe gloydi
  • Taxas Rat Snake: Elaphe obsoleta lindheimerii
  • Gray Rat Snake: Elaphe obsoleta spiloides
  • Trans-pecos Rat Snake: Elaphe subcularis
  • Green Rat Snake: Elaphe triaspis
  • Ladder Rat Snake: Elaphe scalaris
  • Leopard Rat Snake: Elaphe situla
  • Mandarin Rat Snake: Elaphe mandarina
  • Four-lined Rat Snake: Elaphe guauorlineata
  • Aesculapian Rat Snake: Elaphe longissima
  • Amur “Russian” Rat Snake: Elaphe schencki
  • Radiated Rat Snake: Elaphe radiata
  • Chinese Twin-spotted Rat Snake: Elaphe bimaculata
  • Steppes Rat Snake: Elaphe dione
  • Trinket Rat Snake: Elaphe helena
  • Diones Ratsnake: Elaphe dione
  • Diadem Ratsnake: Spalerosophis diadema cliffordi

Other Snake Scientific Names

  • Western Ribbon Snake: Thamnophis proximus proximus
  • Peninsula Ribbon Snake: Thamnophis sauritus sackenii
  • Bluestripe Ribbon Snake: Thamnophis sauritus nitae
  • Butler’s Garter Snake: Thamnophis butleri
  • Western Blackneck Garter Snake: Thamnophis cyrtopsis cyrtopsis
  • Eastern blackneck Garter Snake: Thamnophis cyrtopsis ocellatus
  • Wandering Garter Snake: Thamnophis elegans vagrans
  • Mexican Garter Snake: Thamnophis eques
  • New Mexican Garter Snake: Thamnophis sirtalis dorsalis
  • Checkered Garter Snake: Thamnophis marcianus marcianus
  • Northwestern Garter Snake: Thamnophis ordinoides
  • Eastern Garter Snake: Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
  • Blue Striped Garter Snake: Thamnophis sirtalis similis
  • Plains Garter Snake: Thamnophis radix
  • Texas Garter Snake: Thamnophis sirtalis annectens
  • Red-sided Garter Snake: Thamnophis sirtalis partietalis
  • Bullsnake: Pituophis melanoleucus sayi
  • Northern Mexican Pine Snake: Pitouphis deppi jani
  • Sanoran Gopher Snake: Pituophis melanoleucus affinis
  • Louisiana Pine Snake: Pituophis melanoleucus ruthveni
  • Florida Pine Snake: Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus
  • Black Pine Snake: Pituophis melanoleucus lodingi
  • Northern Pine Snake: Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus
  • Pacific Gopher Snake: Pituophis melanoleucus catenifer
  • San Diego Gopher Snake: Pituophis melanoleucus annectens
  • Baja Gopher Snake: Pituophis melanoleucus bimaris
  • Mexican Pine Snake: Pitouphis deppi deppi
  • Sanoran Spotted Whiptail: Cnemidophorus sanorae
  • Western Whiptail: Cnemidophorus tigris
  • California Whiptail: Cnemidophorus tigris mundus
  • Plateau Striped Whiptail: Cnemidophorus velox
  • Checkered Whiptail: Cnemidophorus tesselatus complex
  • Orange-throated Whiptail: Cnemidophorus hyperythrus
  • Western Hog Nose: Heterodon nasicus nasicus
  • Eastern Hog Nose: Heterodon platyrhinos
  • Dusty Hognose Snake: Heterodon nasicus gloydi
  • Mexican Hognose Snake: Heterodon nasicus kennerlyi
  • Six-lined Racerunner: Cnemidophorus sexlineatus
  • Prairie Racerunner: Cnemidophorus sexlineatus viridis