#1754 · 🦎 reptiles

Speckled Kingsnake

🇳🇱 Lampropeltis getula holbrooki ·Lampropeltis holbrooki

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Yinan Li · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © johnwilliams · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Chris Harrison · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Shaun Hayes · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Kenneth Bader · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Rapides County, US-LA, US:© Micah Shively · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Texas, US:© Bryan Box · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Sunset, LA 70584, USA:© Erik Johnson · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Cimarron County, OK, USA:© Jess McLaughlin · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Colorado, US:© Noah Sanford · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The speckled kingsnake ( Lampropeltis holbrooki ) is a nonvenomous species of kingsnake, which is endemic to the United States.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,132iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
6,132 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Leonhard Hess Stejneger in 1902 (124 years ago).