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Thamnophis cyrtopsis (Blackneck Garter Snake (cyrtopsis; Eastern blackneck garter snake)

Synonyms: Eutaenia cyrtopsis; Eutaenia cyrtopsis ocellata; Thamnophis cyrtopsis cyclides; Thamnophis vicinus

Wikipedia Abstract

Thamnophis cyrtopsis, the blackneck garter snake, is a species of garter snake of the genus Thamnophis. It is native to the southwestern United States, Mexico and Guatemala, and can be found in a wide range of different habitats, often near water sources.
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Infraspecies

Thamnophis cyrtopsis collaris
Thamnophis cyrtopsis cyrtopsis (Western black-necked gartersnake)
Thamnophis cyrtopsis ocellatus (Eastern Blackneck Garter Snake)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  441 grams
Litter Size [1]  25
Maximum Longevity [2]  11 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Predators

Accipiter cooperii (Cooper's Hawk)[3]
Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk)[3]
Buteogallus anthracinus (Common Black-Hawk)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Abbreviata terrapenis <Unverified Name>[4]
Alaria mesocercaria <Unverified Name>[4]
Ochetosoma ellipticum <Unverified Name>[4]
Ophidascaris labiatopapillosa <Unverified Name>[4]

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
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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