Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Colubridae > Thamnophis > Thamnophis atratus

Thamnophis atratus (Santa Cruz Garter Snake)

Synonyms: Eutaenia atrata; Thamnophis couchi hydrophilus; Thamnophis elegans aquaticus; Thamnophis ordinoides hydrophila

Wikipedia Abstract

The aquatic garter snake (Thamnophis atratus) is a species of colubrid snake. Three subspecies are currently recognized.
View Wikipedia Record: Thamnophis atratus

Infraspecies

Thamnophis atratus atratus (Santa Cruz Garter Snake)
Thamnophis atratus hydrophilus (Oregon (Gray) Garter Snake)
Thamnophis atratus zaxanthus (Diabolo Garter Snake)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  439 grams
Litter Size [1]  12
Maximum Longevity [1]  18 years

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
California Coast Ranges Biosphere Reserve 153447 California, United States  
Golden Gate National Recreation Area V 26135 California, United States
Redwood National Park II 77867 California, United States

Prey / Diet

Dicamptodon ensatus (California Giant Salamander)[2]
Rana cascadae (Cascades Frog)[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Thamnophis sirtalis (Common Garter Snake)1

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Anurans as prey: an exploratory analysis and size relationships between predators and their prey, L. F. Toledo, R. S. Ribeiro & C. F. B. Haddad, Journal of Zoology 271 (2007) 170–177
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0