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Common Garter Snake

Thamnophis sirtalis

Class
Reptile
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Thamnophis
Also known as
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Common Garter Snake research

498 published papers in the HerpAtlas library. Most cited below, or see the latest research →

Common Garter Snake natural history notes

Field and captive observations published in Herpetological Review's Natural History Notes. Each is a single observation, summarized by us, with a link to the original.

Albinism

Cannibalism

Coloration

  • Donald F. Mcalpine and Kevin Craig · 2022 · Herpetological Review 53(1): 159–161 · Read the note

  • 2018 · Herpetological Review 49(2): 358 · Read the note

  • 1986 · Herpetological Review 17(1): 23–24 · Read the note

Courtship behavior

Diet

  • Haley A. Moniz and Amber N. Stokes · 2025 · Herpetological Review 56(1): 110–112 · Read the note

  • Keith Geluso · 2024 · Herpetological Review 55(1): 125 · Read the note

  • Ny Heitman · 2021 · Herpetological Review 52(3): 677 · Read the note

  • 2020 · Herpetological Review 51(1): 158 · Read the note

  • John W. Reynolds and Frederick W. Schueler · 2019 · Herpetological Review 50(4): 815 · Read the note

  • Wade A. Boys and Leo J. Fleckenstein · 2015 · Herpetological Review 46(2): 277 · Read the note

  • 2014 · Herpetological Review 45(3): 520 · Read the note

  • 2014 · Herpetological Review 45(3): 521 · Read the note

  • 2010 · Herpetological Review 41(2): 238–239 · Read the note

  • 2002 · Herpetological Review 33(2): 142–143 · Read the note

Diet / scavenging

  • Gary S. Casper, Jeffrey B. Leclere, and James C. Gillingham · 2015 · Herpetological Review 46(4): 653–654 · Read the note

Diet and accidental mortality

Habitat and behavior

  • Howard O. Clark · 2008 · Herpetological Review 39(4): 474 · Read the note

Habitat use

Melanism

  • John Gilhen, Nelson Poirier, and John Massey · 2019 · Herpetological Review 50(4): 815–816 · Read the note

Overwintering behavior

Population morph variation

Refugia and mortality

  • Andrew J. Caven · 2017 · Herpetological Review 48(4): 868–869 · Read the note

Reproduction

  • Ana Gatica-Colima and José Candelario Hernández-Álvarez · 2019 · Herpetological Review 50(3): 603 · Read the note

Reproduction / neonate size

  • Madelaine A. Empey, Frederick W. Schueler, Quetzal Dwyer, Alejandro Arteaga, César L. Barrio-Amorós, Ari Flagle, and Matt Cage · 2018 · Herpetological Review 49(2): 358–360 · Read the note

Reproductive behavior

  • Hayley L. Crowell, José Rogelio Cedeño-Vázquez, Pablo M. Beutelspacher-García, Luis Francisco Nieto-Toscano, and Víctor Hugo Reynoso · 2021 · Herpetological Review 52(4): 884–885 · Read the note

Scavenging

  • Neftalí Ríos-López, Alberto R. Puente-Rolón, Nick van Gilder, and Spencer Riffle · 2019 · Herpetological Review 50(3): 604–608 · Read the note

  • 2010 · Herpetological Review 41(1): 99–100 · Read the note

Upland habitat use

  • Jeff Alvarez and Julie Andersen · 2015 · Herpetological Review 46(2): 278 · Read the note

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