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California Mountain Kingsnake
Lampropeltis zonata (Lockington ex Blainville, 1876)

Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
California King Snake (Lampropeltis zonata: Van Denburgh, John. 1897. The reptiles of the Pacific Coast and Great Basin: An account of the species known to inhabit California, and Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Nevada. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 5():9-236); California King Snake (Lampropeltis zonata: Van Denburgh, John. 1922. The Reptiles of Western North America: An Account of the Species Known to Inhabit California and Oregon, Washinton, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, British Columbia, Sonora, and Lower California. Volume I. Lizards. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 556pp.); Coral King Snake (Lampropeltis multicincta: 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.); Coral King Snake (Lampropeltis zonata: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Sierra Coral King Snake (Lampropeltis zonata multicincta: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Coast Range Coral King Snake (Lampropeltis zonata zonata: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
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USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1835 Blainville, Henri-Marie Ducrotay. Description de quelques espèces de reptiles de la Californie: Précédée de l'analyse d'un systéme général d'erpétologie et d'amphibiologie. [Description of some species of reptiles from California: Preceded by the analysis of a general system of herpetology and amphibiology.] Nouvelles Annales Du Museum D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [ New Annals of the Natural History Museum, Paris] 3(2):233-296
1876 Lockington, William N. Description of a new genus and species of colubrine snake. Proceedings of the California Academy of Science 7():52-53
1921 Blanchard, Frank N. A revision of the king snakes: Genus Lampropeltis.. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (114):1-260
1932 Linsdale, Jean M. Amphibians and reptiles from Lower California. University of California Publications in Zoology 38():345-386
1936 Burt, Charles E. The nomenclature of Western Coral King Snakes, Lampropeltis zonata versus L. multicincta. Copeia 1936(2):94-98
1938 Peters, J. L. The name of the western coral king snake. Copeia 19038(2):93
1943 Klauber, Laurence. M. Tail-length differences snakes, with notes on sexual dimorphism and the coefficient of divergence. Bulletin of the Zoological Society of San Diego (18):5-60
1943 Klauber, Laurence M. The coral king snakes of the Pacific Coast. of the San Diego Society of Natural History 10(6):75-82
1945 Smith, Hobart M. and Edward H. Taylor. An annotated checklist and key to the snakes of Mexico. United States National Museum Bulletin (187):239
2013 Myers, E. A., Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles, Dale Denardo, R. E. Staub, A. Stropoli, Sara Ruane, and Frank T. Burbrink Multilocus phylogeographic assessment of the California Mountain Kingsnake (Lampropeltis zonata) suggests alternative patterns of diversification for the California Floristic Province. Molecular Ecology 22(21):5418-5429

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