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Florida Kingsnake
Lampropeltis floridana Blanchard, 1919

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2024.02.18.11.47.21)
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Florida

First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1919 Blanchard, Frank N. Two new snakes of the genus Lampropeltis. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (70):1-11
1920 Blanchard, Frank N. A synopsis of the king snakes: Genus Lampropeltis Fitzinger. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (87):1-7
1972 Baker, Robert J., George A. Mengden, and James J. Bull. Karyotypic studies of thirty-eight species of North American snakes . Copeia 1972(2):257-265
1973 Blaney, Richard M.. Lampropeltis. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (150):1-2
1975 Dessauer, Herbert C. and F. Harvey Pough. Geographic variation of blood proteins and the systematics of kingsnakes (Lampropeltis getulus). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 50:9-12
2001 Krysko, Kenneth L. Ecology, conservation, and morphological and molecular systematics of the kingsnake, Lampropeltis getula (Serpentes: Colubridae). Dissertation. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 169pp.
2003 Krysko, Kenneth L. and Richard Franz. Systematics and Conservation of the Kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula) in Florida. Bureau of Wildlife Diversity Conservation, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida. 49pp.
2017 Krysko, Kenneth L., Leroy P. Nunez, Catherine E. Newman, and Brian W. Bowen. Phylogenetics of Kingsnakes, Lampropeltis getula complex (Serpentes: Colubridae), in Eastern North America. Journal of Heredity 108(3):1-13
2020 Hillis, David M. The detection and naming of geographic variation within species. Herpetological Review 51(1):52-56

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