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Lampropeltis calligaster (Prairie Kingsnake)

Synonyms: Coluber calligaster; Ophibolus evansii (heterotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Lampropeltis calligaster is a species of kingsnake known commonly as the prairie kingsnake.
View Wikipedia Record: Lampropeltis calligaster

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.491 lbs (1.13 kg)
Female Maturity [2]  3 years
Male Maturity [2]  3 years
Gestation [1]  77 days
Litter Size [3]  8
Maximum Longevity [2]  24 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Buteo platypterus (Broad-winged Hawk)[5]

Range Map

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
3A neglected life-history trait: clutch-size variance in snakes, R. Shine and R. A. Seigel, J. Zool. Lond. (1996) 239, 209-223
4Resources of a Snake Community in Prairie-Woodland Habitat of Northeastern Kansas, Henry S. Fitch, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, Wildlife Research Report 13: 83-98 (1982)
5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0