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Milksnakes and kings are all pretty much the same thing. They're all in the genus Lampropeltis. The difference is that there are many different species of kingsnakes, one of those species is called the milksnake (Lampropeltis triangulatum). Now there's only one species of milksnake, but within that species are many subspecies, and that's why there are more than one kind of milksnake. Example: Lampropeltis triangulatum triangulatum (eastern milksnake), Lampropeltis triangulatum annulata (mexican milksnake). Like you mentioned, its similar to the corn snake. Corns aren't really different from rat snakes, they're just another species of rat snake, that just happens to not have "rat" in its name unless you go by its alias, the red rat snake). Like the rest of tha rats, its still in the genus Elaphe. Corns, like milks, also have subspecies, including the great plains rat snake (Elaphe guttata emoryi).
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