Eastern milk snake

Eastern milk snake
Adult eastern milk snake in Tennessee
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Lampropeltis
Species:
L. triangulum
Subspecies:
L. t. triangulum
Trinomial name
Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum
(Lacépède, 1789)
Synonyms
  • Coluber triangulum
    Lacépède, 1789
  • Lampropeltis triangula
    — Cope, 1860
  • Ophibolus triangulus
    — Garman, 1884
  • Coronella triangulum
    — Boettger, 1898
  • Lampropeltis doliata triangulum
    — A.H. Wright & A.A. Wright, 1957
  • Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum
    — Conant & Collins, 1991
  • Lampropeltis triangulum
    — Wallach et al., 2014

Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum, commonly known as the eastern milk snake or eastern milksnake, is a subspecies of the milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum). The nonvenomous, colubrid snake is indigenous to eastern and central North America.

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