SciWorks Corn Snake
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The name "corn snake" is a holdover from the days when southern farmers stored harvested ears of corn in a wood frame or log building called a crib. Rats and mice came to the corn crib to feed on the corn, and corn snakes came to feed on the rodents. The name was also derived by the look of its belly, which appears to look like "Indian corn."
Scientific name: Pantherophis guttatus guttatus