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Reptilia
Squamata (part)
Colubridae
Northern Mole Kingsnake
Lampropeltis rhombomaculata
(Holbrook, 1840)
Current SSAR 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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First instance(s) of published English names:
Kennicott's Chain Snake
(
Ophibolus calligaster
: Jordan, David Starr.
1876
. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi River, and North of North Carolina and Tennessee, Exclusive of Marine Species. Jansen, McClurg, and Company, Chicago, Illinois.. 342pp.);
Blotched King Snake
(
Ophibolus rhombomaculatus
: Brown, Arthur, E.
1902
. Report of the Board of Directors. Pages 5-22 in Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia. Allen, Lane, and Scott, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. pp.);
Mole Snake
(
Lampropeltis rhombomaculata
: Schmidt, Karl Peterson and D. D. Davis.
1941
. Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. C.P. Putnam and Sons, New York. 365pp.);
Taxon Links:
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
The Reptile Database
NatureServe
iNaturalist
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Pertinent LIterature:
1979
Blaney, Richard M.
Lampropeltis calligaster
. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (229):1-2
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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