page_title: Kingsnake
section_title: List of kingsnake species and subspecies
hierarchical_section_title: Kingsnake / List of kingsnake species and subspecies
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context_page_description: Kingsnakes are colubrid New World constrictors, members of the genus Lampropeltis, which includes milk snakes and four other species. Among these, about 45 subspecies are recognized. They are non-venomous snakes and are ophiophagous in diet.
context_section_description: Kingsnake species and subspecies include (listed here alphabetically by specific and subspecific name):
  Guatemalan milk snake, Lampropeltis abnorma (Bocourt, 1886)
  Gray-banded kingsnake, Lampropeltis alterna (A. E. Brown, 1901)
  Mexican milk snake, Lampropeltis annulata Kennicott, 1860
  California kingsnake, Lampropeltis californiae (Blainville, 1835)
  Prairie kingsnake, Lampropeltis calligaster (Harlan, 1827)
  Prairie kingsnake, L. c. calligaster (Harlan, 1827)
  South Florida mole kingsnake, L. c. occipitolineata Price, 1987
  Mole kingsnake, L. c. rhombomaculata (Holbrook, 1840)
  Santa Catalina Island kingsnake, Lampropeltis catalinensis (Van Denburgh & Slevin, 1921)
  Scarlet kingsnake or scarlet milk snake, Lampropeltis elapsoides (Holbrook, 1838)
  Short-tailed snake, Lampropeltis extenuata (Brown, 1890)
  Central Plains milk snake, Lampropeltis gentilis (Baird & Girard, 1853)
  Common kingsnake, Lampropeltis getula (Linnaeus, 1766)
  Brooks' kingsnake, L. g. brooksi Barbour, 1919
  Florida kingsnake, L. g. floridana (Blanchard, 1919)
  Eastern kingsnake, L. g. getula (Linnaeus, 1766)
  Apalachicola kingsnake, L. g. meansi Krysko & Judd, 2006
  Mexican black kingsnake, L. g. nigrita Zweifel & Norris, 1955
  Greer's kingsnake, Lampropeltis greeri (Webb, 1961)
  Speckled kingsnake, Lampropeltis holbrooki Stejneger, 1902
  Madrean mountain kingsnake, Lampropeltis knoblochi Taylor, 1940
  Nuevo León kingsnake, Lampropeltis leonis (Günther, 1893)
  Mexican kingsnake, Lampropeltis mexicana (Garman, 1884)
  Mexican kingsnake, L. m. mexicana (Garman, 1884)
  Ecuadorian milk snake, Lampropeltis micropholis Cope, 1860
  Black kingsnake, Lampropeltis nigra (Yarrow, 1882)
  Atlantic Central American milk snake, Lampropeltis polyzona Cope, 1860
  Arizona mountain kingsnake, Lampropeltis pyromelana (Cope, 1866)
  Utah mountain kingsnake, L. p. infralabialis W. W. Tanner, 1953
  Arizona mountain kingsnake, L. p. pyromelana (Cope, 1866)
  Ruthven's kingsnake, Lampropeltis ruthveni (Blanchard, 1920)
  Desert kingsnake, Lampropeltis splendida (Baird & Girard, 1853)
  Eastern milk snake, Lampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789)
  Lampropeltis webbi Bryson, Dixon & Lazcano, 2005
  California mountain kingsnake, Lampropeltis zonata (Lockington, 1876 ex Blainville, 1835)
  San Pedro kingsnake, L. z. agalma (Van Denburgh & Slevin, 1923)
  Todos Santos Island kingsnake, L. z. herrerae (Van Denburgh & Slevin, 1923)
  Sierra Nevada mountain kingsnake, L. z. multicincta (Yarrow, 1882)
  Coast Ranges mountain kingsnake, L. z. multifasciata (Bocourt, 1886)
  San Bernardino mountain kingsnake, L. z. parvirubra Zweifel, 1952
  San Diego mountain kingsnake, L. z. pulchra Zweifel, 1952
  Saint Helena mountain kingsnake, L. z. zonata (Lockington, 1876 ex Blainville, 1835)
  Additionally, Pyron and Burbrink have argued that the short-tailed snake (Stilosoma extenuatum) (Brown, 1890) should be included with Lampropeltis.
caption: Mole kingsnake (Lampropeltis calligaster rhombomaculata)
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