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title: "Chicken Snake"
description: "Spilotes pullatus — Reptiles. Spilotes pullatus, commonly known as the chicken snake, tropical chicken snake, yellow rat snake, or tiger rat snake is a species of large nonvenomous colubrid snake endemic to the Neotropics."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/chicken-snake
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Chicken Snake

> Spilotes pullatus — Reptiles. Spilotes pullatus, commonly known as the chicken snake, tropical chicken snake, yellow rat snake, or tiger rat snake is a species of large nonvenomous colubrid snake endemic to the Neotropics.

- Scientific name: *Spilotes pullatus*
- Category: `reptiles` (Reptiles)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 3395
- Wikidata: [Q672263](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q672263)
- iNaturalist taxon: [28627](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/28627)

## Names

- en: Chicken Snake
- de: Hühnerfresser
- es: Serpiente tigre
- fr: Chasseur demi-deuil
- pt: Caninana

## Countries with the most observations

BR (909), CR (513), MX (465), CO (395), PA (136), HN (132), AR (80), GF (63), EC (58), PE (49), BZ (48), GT (35)

## Summary

Spilotes pullatus, commonly known as the chicken snake, tropical chicken snake, yellow rat snake, or tiger rat snake is a species of large nonvenomous colubrid snake endemic to the Neotropics.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spilotes_pullatus

## Photo

![Chicken Snake](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/chicken-snake/medium.jpg)

Photo: Paula Romano · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/87477153

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/chicken-snake?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).