Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Colubridae > Thamnophis > Thamnophis postremus

Thamnophis postremus (Mexican Garter Snake)

Synonyms: Thamnophis cyrtopsis postremus

Attributes

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

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Alto Golfo de California y Delta del Rio Colorado Biosphere Reserve VI 2320468 Sonora, Mexico  
Coronado National Monument National Memorial III 4360 Arizona, United States
Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve VI 955579 Queretaro, Mexico  
Reserva de la Michilia Biosphere Reserve VI 23405 Durango, Mexico  

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

Prey / Diet

Thamnophis scalaris (Longtail Alpine Garter Snake)[2]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

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
♦ 2ECOLOGY OF THE MEXICAN ALPINE BLOTCHED GARTER SNAKE (THAMNOPHIS SCALARIS), Javier Manjarrez, Crystian S. Venegas-Barrera, and Tamara García-Guadarrama, THE SOUTHWESTERN NATURALIST 52(2):258–262 (2007)
♦ 3Gibson, 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
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