Western Yellow-bellied Racer
Coluber constrictor mormon
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- C. c. mormon – El Dorado Co, CA – photo by Phil Stone
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- C. c. mormon – Placer Co, CA – photo by Phil Stone
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- C. c. mormon – San Diego Co, CA – photo by Kent VanSooy
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- C. c. mormon – San Diego Co, CA – photo by Kent VanSooy
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- C. c. mormon – San Diego Co, CA – photo by Kent VanSooy
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- Map by Steve Bledsoe, SWCHR
DISTRIBUTION: In our region, Coluber c. mormon occurs in coastal southern California including Santa Cruz Island, central and northern California and northern Nevada.
LEGAL STATUS: No Listing
MEANING OF SCIENTIFIC NAME: Coluber constrictor mormon (Baird & Gerard – 1852)
Genus: Coluber, Latin = snake, serpent
Species: constrictor, Latin = one that constricts – misnomer, this genus does not constrict
Subspecies: mormon, “found by Capt. Howard Stansbury’s party, in the valley of the Great Salt Lake” settled by Mormon religionists
Ref. Ellen Beltz 2006
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