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Thamnophis sirtalis (Common Garter Snake)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) is a species of natricine snake, which is indigenous to North America and found widely across the continent. Most common garter snakes have a pattern of yellow stripes on a brown or green background, and their average total length (including tail) is about 55 cm (22 in), with a maximum total length of about 137 cm (54 in). The average body mass is 150 g (5.3 oz).
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Infraspecies

Thamnophis sirtalis annectens (Texas gartersnake)
Thamnophis sirtalis concinnus (Red-spotted gartersnake)
Thamnophis sirtalis dorsalis (New Mexico gartersnake)
Thamnophis sirtalis fitchi (Valley gartersnake)
Thamnophis sirtalis infernalis (California red-sided gartersnake)
Thamnophis sirtalis pallidulus (Maritime Garter Snake)
Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis (Red-sided gartersnake)
Thamnophis sirtalis pickeringii (Gartersnake)
Thamnophis sirtalis semifasciatus
Thamnophis sirtalis similis (Blue-striped gartersnake)
Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis (Eastern gartersnake)
Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia (San Francisco gartersnake)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  154 grams
Female Weight [1]  170 grams
Male Weight [1]  138 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  23.2 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [3]  2 years
Male Maturity [3]  2 years
Gestation [3]  3 months 10 days
Hibernates [2]  Yes
Litter Size [4]  17
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  14 years

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Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No

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Massachusetts

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Parasitized by 
Macracanthorhynchus ingens[11]
Rhabdias fuscovenosa[11]

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Citations

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♦ 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
♦ 2Myers, 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
♦ 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
♦ 4A neglected life-history trait: clutch-size variance in snakes, R. Shine and R. A. Seigel, J. Zool. Lond. (1996) 239, 209-223
♦ 5Resources of a Snake Community in Prairie-Woodland Habitat of Northeastern Kansas, Henry S. Fitch, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, Wildlife Research Report 13: 83-98 (1982)
♦ 6Study of Northern Virginia Ecology
♦ 7Anurans 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
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Brodie, Edmund D., III, et al. "Sex-biased predation on newts of the genus Taricha by a novel predator and its relationship with tetrodotoxin toxicity." The American Midland Naturalist 165.2 (2011): 389+. Academic OneFile. Web. 15 July 2014.
♦ 10Zapus princeps, E. Blake Hart, Mark C. Belk, Eralee Jordan, and Malinda W. Gonzalez, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 749, pp. 1–7 (2004)
♦ 11Gibson, 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
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