San Bernardino Mountain Kingsnake (Lampropeltis zonata parvirubra)

Created: June 1st, 2019 - 12:50 AM
Last Modified: July 6th, 2021 - 08:32 PM Entered by: Chris Patnaude
Record 320182

Country: United States		State: California	County: Riverside County	Time: 2018-07-06 20:40:00
Qty: 1	Age: Sub-Adult	Sex: --	Method: DOR	Habitat: oak pine woodland
Body Temperature: -----		Air Temperature: 76.00F	Ground Temperature: -----	Humidity: -----
Sky Conditions: Partly Cloudy		Moon Phase: -----	Elevation: 5410.00ft	Barometric Pressure: -----

Notes

It was way too hot to herp anywhere but the mountains and the pseudo monsoon conditions seemed perfect to find Mt. Kings on the crawl. Sure enough after I cruised by this road and came back for another pass this guy had come out and got hit. Bummer.

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Posted by Jeff Teel on Jul 12, 2021 at 01:20 PM

Mark...LOL! That's where I failed to "really look" as I didn't even see the elev. field. That would've made me think SJ's as well. It's a super clean SJ, although on average parvs from the SJs seem to be cleaner than Sb mtns and SG mtns. A few of us have always discussed with the SJ's being a Peninsular range why these were not always considered "pulchra" especially with all the other Peninsular range species occurring in the SJ's-minus the umbrattica that is. All super neat stuff!

Posted by Mark Buck on Jul 08, 2021 at 04:06 PM

Yea Jeff you're definitely right this could have been a Santa Ana Mtns pulchra. I already knew this one was a parv cause I had talked to Chris about it on the phone around the time he found it. One things for sure, it would definitely be impressive to find a Z @ 5,400ft in the SA's, I think the highest point is around 5,600...

Posted by Chris Patnaude on Jul 07, 2021 at 02:20 PM

Jeff, yeah San Jacinto Mountains.

Posted by Jeff Teel on Jul 07, 2021 at 12:24 PM

Chris, so this was a San Jacinto Mtns. animal? It is on the higher band count side for pulchra-(especially IF it was a Santa Ana Mtns.) but on the lower end for "typical" parvs. Always a bummer regardless to come across a fresh hit Z!

Posted by Chris Patnaude on Jul 06, 2021 at 08:34 PM

Sorry Mark, you are right, I guess I cannot read range maps. I have changed this record to Parvirubra.

Posted by Jeff Teel on Jul 06, 2021 at 06:50 PM

Depending where he found it…Mark. Looks like a Santa Ana pulchra to me???

Posted by Mark Buck on Jun 01, 2019 at 02:37 PM

Hey Chris this should be the "parvirubra" subspecies...
Definitely a bummer, such a nice Z. Hope to see you start entering more of your finds!