The black rat snake, also called the western rat snake (Pantherophis obsoletus), is commonly found in the eastern and central United States, predominantly west of the Mississippi River from southern Louisiana and southern and central Texas northward to Oklahoma, central and eastern Kansas, southeastern Nebraska, southeastern Iowa, and extreme southeastern Minnesota.
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