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Californiakingsnake🐍

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SpeciesColubridae
Reptiles

🐍California kingsnake

Lampropeltis californiae (Blainville, 1835)

Die Kalifornische Kettennatter (Lampropeltis californiae) ist eine Schlangenart aus der Familie der Nattern, die westlich der Kontinentalen Wasserscheide in den USA und im Nordwesten von Mexiko beheimatet ist. Sie kommt in Kalifornien, im Süden von Oregon, im Westen und Süden von Nevada, im Süden von Utah, in Arizona und in Mexiko auf der Halbinsel Baja California und in Sonora vor.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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≈ 1/91st of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.68 kg
Body length
2 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
33 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the California kingsnake

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.68 kgmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Body length
2 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
33 yearsmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Cathemeral
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
No
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.7 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for California kingsnake yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusLampropeltis
  6. ›speciesLampropeltis californiae
Full lineage
  1. superorderLepidosauria
  2. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  3. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  4. genusLampropeltis
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  12. genusLampropeltis
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Lampropeltis californiae (fr), Lampropeltis californiae (de), Lampropeltis californiae (es), Lampropeltis californiae (ru), Lampropeltis californiae (it), Lampropeltis californiae (vi) … and 12 more languages
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