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Thamnophis scalaris (Longtail Alpine Garter Snake)

Attributes

Litter Size [1]  11

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve VI 955579 Queretaro, 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

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Thamnophis postremus (Mexican Garter Snake)[1]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1ECOLOGY 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)
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
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