Another term that is often thrown around in certain circles within the industry is that of ‘Tricolors’. Regardless, the name once again stuck and has been used since.
I assure you that no cow to my knowledge would stand for six rows of teeth being embedded into its teat without some type of reaction. When he attempted to milk the cow he noticed that there was a shortage of milk and made the connection that the snake must have had something to do with this. The Milk Snake name may have come from a farmer of old going to his barn and discovering a snake near the cow he was going to milk. Logically, this would make it the ‘King of Snakes’ and the name simply stuck. The Kingsnake most likely achieved their common name by someone observing them eat a venomous Rattlesnake. Now the letter and spirit of the law can be more closely aligned.From all the research I have done I have come to the same conclusion as many of my colleagues and mentors have. Strictly speaking, as (former) members of Lampropeltis triangulum, they were illegal, though in practical terms they were obviously not local snakes. If nothing else, it’ll make things more clear in the pet trade, especially here, where Eastern Milk Snakes are a local, protected species (and lousy captives, to boot), whereas Mexican and Central American Milk Snakes are in every pet store. Whether this one holds, or is refined further, is anyone’s guess. I’m no herpetologist, but to my amateur eyes this makes considerable sense, and upends a taxonomical paradigm that was clearly unsustainable. It’s found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela. South American Milk Snake ( Lamproletis micropholis) includes the Andean ( andesiana), black ( gaigae) and Ecuadorian ( micropholis) subspecies.It’s found from southeastern Mexico (Guerrero, Veracruz) to Costa Rica. Central American Milk Snake ( Lampropeltis abnorma) includes the Guatemalan ( abnorma), Blanchard’s ( blanchardi), Honduran ( hondurensis), Pacific American ( oligozona), Stuart’s ( stuarti) subspecies, as well as some populations of the Conant’s ( conanti) and Atlantic Central American ( polyzona) subspecies.Mexican Milk Snake ( Lampropeltis polyzona) includes the former Jalisco ( arcifera), Pueblan ( nelsoni), Sinaloan ( sinaloae) and Smith’s ( smithi) subspecies, as well as some populations of the Conant’s ( conanti) and Atlantic Central American ( polyzona) subspecies.Tamaulipas (Mexican) Milk Snake ( Lampropeltis annulata) includes Dixon’s Milk Snake ( dixoni) and most populations of the former Mexican subpsecies ( annulata), and is found in northeastern Mexico and Texas.Scarlet Kingsnake ( Lampropeltis elapsoides), found in the southeastern U.S., is unchanged.Western Milk Snake ( Lampropeltis gentilis), found in the Great Plains and mountain states of the U.S., includes the New Mexico ( celaenops), Central Plains ( gentilis), Pale ( multistriata) and Utah ( taylori) Milk Snakes, as well as most Louisiana Milk Snakes ( amaura), Mexican Milk Snakes ( annulata) from central Texas and Red Milk Snakes ( syspila) from Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma.The Coastal Plains Milk Snake (“ temporalis“), previously considered an intergrade between the Eastern Milk Snake and Scarlet Kingsnake ( elapsoides), is also included. triangulum) subspecies and adds Louisiana Milk Snakes ( amaura) from northeastern Louisiana and most populations of Red Milk Snakes ( syspila). Eastern Milk Snake ( Lampropeltis triangulum), found in northeastern and central North America, includes the former Eastern ( L.
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