California Kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula californiae)

Created: March 15th, 2007 - 11:05 PM
Last Modified: November 30th, 2009 - 11:19 AM Entered by: Michael Peters
Record 2230

Country: United States		State: California	County: Shasta County	Time: 2007-03-15 18:37:00
Qty: 1	Age: YoY	Sex: Female	Method: Artificial cover flipping	Habitat: grassy clearing
Body Temperature: -----		Air Temperature: -----	Ground Temperature: -----	Humidity: -----
Sky Conditions: -----		Moon Phase: -----	Elevation: 721.80ft	Barometric Pressure: -----

Notes

First L getula I've flipped this year. Found under a mattress.
Interesting spotting on the belly.

29 bands snout to vent. Two "half bands" no "Y bands"
(Y band where two bands from one side meet same band on other side)

Sex determined by tail geometry, I did not probe her.

Update Nov 13 2009: Updated elevation via GPSVisualizer
Updated locale (added precision)

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Comments

Posted by Michael Peters on Mar 20, 2007 at 10:31 PM

Encountered specimen today at (3/20/2007) at same location. This time I probed the specimen, it is female.