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Western Terrestrial Garter Snake
Thamnophis elegans (Baird & Girard, 1853)
Also calledAkvatisk Strømpebåndssnog (dan) · Berg-Strumpfbandnatter (deu) · Bergstrumpfbandnatter (deu) · Cobra-liga-costeira (por) · Couleuvre de l'Ouest (fra) · Couleuvre jarretière des montagnes (fra) · Culebra-listonada elegante (spa) · Jarretera Terrestre Occidental (spa) · Serpente giarrettiera terricolo (ita) · culebra de agua (spa) · culebra de agua nómada occidental terrestre (spa) · culebra de agua occidental (spa) · culebra listonada elegante (spa) · pończosznik zwyczajny (pol)
First described in: Baird, S. F. and C. Girard. Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1.-Serpents.
This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.
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Every page naming Thamnophis elegans in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2457545.