Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Colubridae > Thamnophis > Thamnophis hammondii

Thamnophis hammondii (Two-striped Garter Snake)

Synonyms: Eutaenia hammondii; Thamnophis digueti; Thamnophis elegans hammondi; Tropidonotus digueti

Wikipedia Abstract

The two-striped garter snake (Thamnophis hammondii) is a species of aquatic garter snake that lives in western North America.
View Wikipedia Record: Thamnophis hammondii

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  400 grams
Litter Size [1]  15
Maximum Longevity [1]  18 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
California coastal sage and chaparral Mexico, United States Nearctic Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
California interior chaparral and woodlands United States Nearctic Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
California montane chaparral and woodlands United States Nearctic Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Parque Nacional de Sierra San Pedro Martir National Park II 180607 Baja California, Mexico  
San Dimas Biosphere Reserve 17161 California, United States  
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area V 38440 California, United States

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States Yes

Prey / Diet

Anaxyrus californicus (Arroyo Toad)[2]
Pseudacris regilla (Northern Pacific Treefrog)[2]
Spea hammondii (Western Spadefoot)[2]

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
♦ 2Anurans 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
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