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Californiakingsnake🐍

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SpeciesColubridae
Reptiles

🐍California kingsnake

Lampropeltis californiae (Blainville, 1835)

La serpiente real de California (Lampropeltis californiae) es una especie de serpiente de la familia Colubridae. Se distribuye por los estados de California, Oregón, Nevada, Utah y Arizona en EE. UU., y en Baja California y Sonora en México.​ También ha sido introducida en la isla de Gran Canaria, España donde es una especie invasora y se está desarrollando un programa de control.​ Hasta recientemente se la consideraba una subespecie de Lampropeltis getula.​ Es una especie por lo general terrestre y puede encontrarse en una gran variedad de hábitats: bosques, zonas de matorral, prados, pantanos, desiertos, zonas de cultivo, etc.​ Es una especie común en el mercado de mascotas.​ Tiene una gran variedad de fases de coloración. Esta serpiente es reconocida por ser sociable con el ser humano.[cita requerida]

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
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  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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