#1631 · 🦎 reptiles

Eastern Milksnake

🇳🇱 Melkslang ·Lampropeltis triangulum

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Carrie Seltzer · CC BY 4.0
2. © Alec Karcz · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Ben · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. Brookline, VT, USA:© joannerusso · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Eastside, Syracuse, NY, USA:© Sequoia Janirella Wrens · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 20 Chickadee Cres, Brampton, ON, CA:© bob15noble · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Calvert County, MD, USA:© bobbyfingers · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Claiborne East, Loveland, OH 45140, USA:© Matt Berger · CC BY 4.0
9. North Carolina, US:© nickolascook · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Ipswich, MA 01938, USA:© Zac Peterson · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Lampropeltis triangulum , commonly known as a milk snake or milksnake , is a species of king snake. There are 24 subspecies of milk snakes. Lampropeltis elapsoides , the scarlet kingsnake, was formerly classified as the subspecies L. t. elapsoides , but is now recognized as a distinct species. The subspecies have strikingly different appearances, and many of them have their own common names. Some authorities suggest that this species may be split into several separate species. They are not...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 27,704iNaturalist 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.
27,704 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1789 (237 years ago).