Milk snake

Milk snake
Red milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum syspila)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Lampropeltis
Species:
L. triangulum
Binomial name
Lampropeltis triangulum
Subspecies

24 subspecies, see text

Synonyms
  • Coluber triangulum
    Lacépède, 1788
  • Pseudoëlaps Y
    Berthold, 1843
  • Ablabes triangulum
    — A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1854
  • Lampropeltis triangula
    — Cope, 1860
  • Coronella triangulum
    — Boulenger, 1894
  • Osceola doliata triangula
    — Cope, 1900

The milk snake or milksnake (Lampropeltis triangulum), is a species of kingsnake; 24 subspecies are currently recognized. Lampropeltis elapsoides, the scarlet kingsnake, was formerly classified as a 25th subspecies (L. t. elapsoides), but is now recognized as a distinct species.[2] The subspecies have strikingly different appearances, and many of them have their own common names. Some authorities suggest that this species could be split into several separate species.[2] They are not venomous to humans.[3][4]

  1. ^ Hammerson, G.A. (2019). "Lampropeltis triangulum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T197493A2490171. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T197493A2490171.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Savitzky, Alan H. (2004), Hutchins, Michael; Evans, Arthur V.; Jackson, Jerome A.; Kleiman, Devra G. (eds.), Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, vol. 7: Reptiles (2nd ed.), Detroit: Adam, p. 47, archived from the original on 2011-05-21, retrieved 2018-12-03
  3. ^ Web, Animal Diversity. "BioKIDS – Kids' Inquiry of Diverse Species, Lampropeltis triangulum, Scarlet kingsnake". www.biokids.umich.edu.
  4. ^ "Snakes of New York". SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.