Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Tropical kingsnake ORDER - SERPENTES FAMILY - Colubridae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Lampropeltis triangulum SYNONYMS - Coluber Triangulum, Lac‚pŠde, 1788 REFERENCES - 3 and 1 District Reference Corozal, Belize 1 Orange Walk, Belize 1 Cayo, Belize 1 Stann Creek, Belize 1 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Private land, see comments Shipstern Nature Reserve 1 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 1 Government land 1 Caracol Archaeological Reserve 1 Chiquibul Forest Reserve 1 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve 1 Bladen Nature Reserve 1 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 1 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 1 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 1 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 1 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 1 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 45' to 89 00' 1 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 1 \ General Distribution Comments 2 * Regalia References 1 Meerman, J., 1994. Summary of Herpetofauna Distributions in Belize. Report to National Protected Areas Management Project. 2 Neill, W.T. and R. Allen. 1961. Further studies on the herpetology of British Honduras. Herpetologica 17(1):37-52. 3 Lee, Julian C. 1996. The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Yucatan Peninsula. Comstock Publishing Associates. Ithaca, New York.
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01/19/98