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Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis Wooster🐍

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SpeciesColubridae
Reptiles

🐍Common garter snake

Thamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Die Gewöhnliche Strumpfbandnatter (Thamnophis sirtalis) ist die bekannteste Schlangenart innerhalb der Gattung Strumpfbandnattern (Thamnophis).

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≈ 1/410th of your weight
Also called
Common Gartersnake, Red-sided Garter Snake
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.15 kg
Body length
1.4 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
14 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common garter snake

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.15 kgrecord 0.86 kg · ReptTraits
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
1.4 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
14 yearsrecord 20 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
100 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Foraging mode
ACT
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
Yes
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Snout–vent length
0.55 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female0.4 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
  • Male0.5 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common garter snake yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusThamnophis
  6. ›speciesThamnophis sirtalis
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. superorderLepidosauria
  3. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  4. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
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Gewöhnliche Strumpfbandnatter (de), amerikansk strømpebåndsnok (nb), Thamnophis sirtalis (pt), Ogrodowiec zwyczajny (pl), Couleuvre rayée (fr), Thamnophis sirtalis (es) … and 18 more languages
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