Description
The Slowinski's Corn Snake is medium-sized, and colored grayish-brown with a series of large, alternating, chocolate-brown blotches. These blotches are often bordered in black. It has a spearhead marking on the head. The belly is checkered black and white, giving it an appearance of maize. (Its close relative, the Corn Snake, gets its name for this belly pattern.)
While superficially this species resembles the Prairie Kingsnake, the spearhead marking present on the head of the Slowinski's Corn Snake is usually sufficient for identification. Its body has a rounded top, steep sides, and a flat belly.
As young, this species can be distinguished from the Western Rat Snake by considering the dark bar that runs through each eye. In the Slowinski's Corn Snake, this bar extends through the jawline and onto the neck whereas in the Western Rat Snake the bar extends only to the jawline where it stops abruptly.
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