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Lampropeltis holbrooki (Common Kingsnake)

Synonyms: Lampropeltis getula holbrooki

Wikipedia Abstract

Lampropeltis getula holbrooki, commonly known as the speckled kingsnake or black pepper snake, is a nonvenomous subspecies of kingsnake, which is endemic to the United States.
View Wikipedia Record: Lampropeltis holbrooki

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  4.50 lbs (2.041 kg)
Diet [2]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [3]  3 years
Male Maturity [3]  3 years
Gestation [1]  59 days
Litter Size [1]  11
Maximum Longevity [3]  33 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No

Prey / Diet

Geomys breviceps (Baird's pocket gopher)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Bubo virginianus (Great Horned Owl)1
Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk)1
Mephitis mephitis (Striped Skunk)1
Mustela frenata (Long-tailed Weasel)1
Pituophis ruthveni (Louisiana Pine Snake)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Macracanthorhynchus ingens[5]
Ochetosoma kansense <Unverified Name>[5]
Ophidascaris ashii <Unverified Name>[5]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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
♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 3de 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
♦ 4Geomys breviceps, James M. Sulentich, Lawrence R. Williams, and Guy N. Cameron, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 383, pp. 1-4 (1991)
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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