{{Short description|Subspecies of snake}} {{Italic title}} {{subspeciesbox | name = ''Lampropeltis getula brooksi'' | image = Brooks King Snake.jpg | image_caption = | genus = Lampropeltis | species = getula | subspecies = brooksi | authority = [[Thomas Barbour|Barbour]], 1919 | synonyms = }}
'''''Lampropeltis getula brooksi''''' (also known as '''Brooks' kingsnake''') is a [[subspecies]] of nonvenomous [[snake]] in the [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] [[Colubridae]]. ''Lampropeltis getula brooksi'' is one of several subspecies of ''[[Lampropeltis getula]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Lampropeltis_getula/|title=''Lampropeltis getula ''|publisher=Animal Diversity Web|accessdate=8 September 2015}}</ref>
==Etymology== The [[Subspecies|subspecific name]], ''brooksi'', is in honor of American zoologist [[Winthrop Sprague Brooks]] (1887–1965).<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (''Lampropeltis getula brooksi'', p. 40).</ref>
==Geographic range== ''L. g. brooksi'' is found in southern [[Florida]].
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[[Category:Lampropeltis|getula brooksi]] [[Category:Fauna of the Southeastern United States]] [[Category:Reptiles of the United States]]