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Thamnophis brachystoma (Shorthead Garter Snake)

Synonyms: Eutaenia brachystoma

Wikipedia Abstract

Thamnophis brachystoma, the shorthead garter snake or short-headed gartersnake, is a small species of colubrid snake found in small pockets in northwestern Pennsylvania and southwest New York. Name comes from the Greek words "Brachy", meaning short, and "stoma", meaning mouth.
View Wikipedia Record: Thamnophis brachystoma

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  67 grams
Litter Size [1]  10

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Allegheny Highlands forests United States Nearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests Canada, United States Nearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
New England-Acadian forests Canada, United States Nearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

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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
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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