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South Florida Mole Kingsnake
Lampropeltis occipitolineata Price, 1987

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: 2023.04.09.21.41.45)
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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:
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
1973 Blaney, Richard M.. Lampropeltis. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (150):1-2
1977 Price, Robert M. Systematics of the colubrid snake Lampropeltis calligaster (Harlan). Thesis. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. 98pp.
1979 Blaney, Richard M. Lampropeltis calligaster. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (229):1-2
1986 Layne, James N., Timothy J. Walsh, and Peter Meylan. New records for the Mole Snake, Lampropeltis calligaster, in peninsular Florida. Florida Scientist 49(3):171-175
1987 Price, R. M. Disjunct occurence of mole snakes in Peninsular Florida, and the description of a new subspecies of Lampropeltis calligaster. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 22(9):148
1991 Collins, Joseph T. Viewpoint: A new taxonomic arrangement for some North American amphibins and reptiles Herpetological Review 22(2):42-43
1998 Krysko, Kenneth L. and Chuck Hurt. Geographic distribution. Lampropeltis calligaster occipitolineata. Herpetological Review 29(3):177
2000 Krysko, Kenneth L., Leonard E. Krysko, and Chuck Hurt. Reproduction and distribution of the South Florida Mole Kingsnake (Lampropeltis calligaster occipitolineata) from central peninsular Florida. The Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 116(4):344-347
2014 Crother, Brian I. The bold taxonomic hypotheses of Collins (1991): 23 years later. Herpetological Review 45(2):268-272
2017 McKelvy, Alexander and Frank T. Burbrink. Ecological divergence in the Yellow-bellied Kingsnake (Lampropeltis calligaster) at two North American biodiversity hotspots. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 106(2017):61-72

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