Lampropeltis nigrita (ZWEIFEL & NORRIS, 1955)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Lampropeltini, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Mexican Black Kingsnake, Black Desert Kingsnake
Synonym	Lampropeltis getula nigrita ZWEIFEL & NORRIS 1955: 238 Lampropeltis getulus nigritus — STEBBINS 1985: 192 Lampropeltis getula nigrita — CROTHER 2000: 64 Lampropeltis getula nigritus — LAITA 2013 Lampropeltis getula nigrita — NEVÁREZ DE LOS REYES et al. 2014: 111 Lampropeltis californiae nigrita — HEIMES 2016: 84 Lampropeltis nigrita — KRYSKO et al. 2017: 10 Lampropeltis nigrita — LEMOS-ESPINAL et al. 2019 Lampropeltis nigrita — LEMOS-ESPINAL & SMITH 2020 Lampropeltis nigrita — BASTIDAS 2024
Distribution	Mexico (Sinaloa, Sonora); USA (SE Arizona) Type Locality: 49.2 km south of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
Reproduction	oviparous. KREUTZ (2005) reports hybrids between Elaphe (= Pantherophis) guttata and Lampropeltis getulus californiae, between E. (P.) guttata and L. pyromelana, between E. (P.) guttata and L. triangulum sinaloae/nelsoni, and between E. (P.) guttata and L. zonata!
Types	Holotype: MVZ 50814 (adult male)
Diagnosis	Diagnosis. Most closely related to L. g. yumensis and L. g. splendida, with which it intergrades. It differs from all other forms of L. getulus in its uniform dark brown or slaty black dorsal coloration without any trace of rings or stripes and in its high dorsal scale count. (Zweifel & Norris 1955) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 6103 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
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Etymology	Named after Latin nigritus = blackened) because of the tendency toward darkening which it shows compared to adjacent subspecies.
References	Bastidas, H. A. C. 2024. New records of rare herpetofauna species in Sinaloa, Mexico. Acta Zoológica Lilloana, 575-580 - get paper here Crother, B. I. 2000. Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North America north of Mexico, with comments regarding confidence in our understanding. Herpetological Circular 29: 1-82 Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp Krysko, Kenneth L.; Leroy P. Nuñez, Catherine E. Newman, Brian W. Bowen 2017. Phylogenetics of Kingsnakes, Lampropeltis getula Complex (Serpentes: Colubridae), in Eastern North America. J Hered.: esw086. doi: 10.1093/jhered/esw086 - get paper here Laita, Mark 2013. Serpentine. Abrams and PQ Blackwell, Auckland, New Zealand, 200 unnumbered pages Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR 2020. A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Sinaloa, Mexico with a conservation status summary and comparisons with neighboring states. ZooKeys 931: 85-114 - get paper here Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR, Rorabaugh JC 2019. A conservation checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Sonora, Mexico, with updated species lists. ZooKeys 829: 131-160 - get paper here Nevárez-de los Reyes; Manuel, David Lazcano, Javier Banda-Leal and Ian Recchio 2014. Notes on Mexican Herpetofauna 22: Herpetofauna of the Continental Portion of the Municipality of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 49(8):105-115 - get paper here Stebbins,R.C. 1985. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston Zweifel,R.G. and Norris,K.S. 1955. Contributions to the herpetology of Sonora, Mexico:Descriptions of new subspecies of snakes (Micruroides euryxanthus and Lampropeltis getulus) and miscellaneous collecting notes. American Midland Naturalist 54: 230-249 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.flickr.com/photos/48237384@N08/ http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2006f/z01193p039f.pdf https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/453041910253746 Google images

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