#1709 · 🦎 reptiles

Checkered Garter Snake

Thamnophis marcianus

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © NoNiSs · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Milton Úbeda · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Vivian · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Chris Harrison · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © J. N. Stuart · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. Departamento de Chontales, Nicaragua:© Milton Úbeda · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Park St, Hooker, OK, US:© jrotzeke · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Hays County, TX, USA:© Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. United States:© Joe Paysen · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Tillman County, OK, USA:© Cheyenne Gonzales · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The checkered garter snake ( Thamnophis marcianus ) is a species of garter snake endemic to the southwestern United States, Mexico, and Central America.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,393iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
8,393 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Spencer Fullerton Baird in 1853 (173 years ago).