Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Colubridae > Thamnophis > Thamnophis scaliger

Thamnophis scaliger (Short-tail Alpine Garter Snake)

Synonyms: Tropidonotus scaliger

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Thamnophis scaliger

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Central Mexican matorral Mexico Nearctic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No

Prey / Diet

Barisia imbricata (Imbricate Alligator Lizard)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Thamnophis scalaris (Longtail Alpine Garter Snake)1

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Feriche, M., et al. "Diet and energetic constraints of an earthworm specialist, the Mesa Central Blotched Garter Snake (Thamnophis scaliger)." Canadian Journal of Zoology 89.12 (2011): 1178+. Academic OneFile. Web. 15 July 2014.
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