Of course the exception to this is that the King Snakes will also eat eggs of most anything that lays … Texas indigo snakes are predominantly black in color, with a high sheen which gives their smooth scales a... Habitat. The King Snake is a constrictor, and that means that it kills it's prey by coiling it's powerful, long, muscular body around things and choking them to death. Texas Distribution: Lampropeltis splendida is found throughout the majority of the state. The zone of intergradation between the two subspecies, in Texas, is from the Panhandle, along the Red River valley, south through the cross timbers and blackland prairies to the gulf coast marshes, and exclusive of the piney woods found to the east. Description. KING OF TEXAS SNAKES Geographic Range. It is found from southern Texas south into Mexico as far as Veracruz.