Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Colubridae > Thamnophis > Thamnophis saurita

Thamnophis saurita (Eastern Ribbonsnake; Eastern ribbon snake)

Synonyms: Coluber saurita; Eutaenia sackenii; Prymnomiodon chalceus; Thamnophis sauritus nitae; Thamnophis sauritus septentrionalis

Infraspecies

Attributes

Hibernates [1]  Yes
Litter Size [3]  14
Litters / Year [2]  2
Maximum Longevity [3]  11 years
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams
Adult Weight [2]  407 grams
Diet [1]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [3]  2 years
Male Maturity [3]  2 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Dryophytes avivoca (Bird-voiced Treefrog)[4]
Dryophytes cinereus (Green Treefrog)[4]
Dryophytes squirellus[4]
Lithobates clamitans (Green Frog)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Agkistrodon piscivorus (conanti)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Catadiscus marinholutzi[5]
Rhabdias fuscovenosa[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
2Nathan 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
3de 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
4ECOLOGY OF THE EASTERN RIBBONSNAKE (THAMNOPHIS SAURITUS) IN SOUTHERN ALABAMA WITH EVIDENCE OF SEASONAL MULTIPLE BROODS, GABRIEL J. LANGFORD, JOEL A. BORDEN, AND DAVID H. NELSON, Herpetological Conservation and Biology 6(3):400–409 (2011)
5Gibson, 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
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