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Checkered Garter Snake
Thamnophis marcianus (Baird & Girard, 1853)
Also calledCobra-liga xadrez (spa) · Cobra-liga-quadriculada (por) · Culebra-listonada manchada (spa) · Karierte Strumpfbandnatter (deu) · Skakbrætstrømpebåndssnog (dan) · Sochuate (spa) · culebra listonada manchada (spa) · užovka kostkovaná (ces) · Шахматный садовый уж (rus) · 格紋帶蛇 (zho)
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”.
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Thamnophis marcianus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 9342283.