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Milk Snake

Lampropeltis triangulum

Photo by AshleyT
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Field Notes

Description:

Gray with red blotches outlined in black. There is another individual in the last photo, which just shows the variation in this species, even on the same site.

Habitat:

One individual was found stuffed between two pieces of wood on a bridge. Was a very weird place to see a snake and surprised all of us in the group. The second was found under some loose bark on a fallen tree. Both were found in piney woods areas.

Notes:

A recent paper was published that split apart many subspecies of the milk snake into separate species. Although I agree they should be split into separate species, the paper failed to include portions of Texas making milk snakes in that area essentially not exist anymore. So when someone publishes a paper and wants to include all areas this snake is found, then I will consider believing it then :)

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Comments (3)

wow, so beautiful! awesome series ashley keep up the good work!
Thanks Tom! I had only seen 1 milk snake before, so finding these 2 within 2 hours was pretty exciting :) The people who did the milk snake paper are the same ones who did the kingsnake paper, which left out the entire great plains section of the US. So kingsnakes are still 1 species to me too :)
Nice! It does look a lot different than the milk snakes I see up here in the northeast. Hopefully someone will get the Texas species sorted out one of these days.

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