Occurrence of the Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains

Occurrence of the Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains

Occurrence of the Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, in the Great Plains and Rocky MountainsThe common garter snake...
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Author: Fitch, Henry S. (Henry Sheldon),1909-2009
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Occurrence of the Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains

Occurrence of the Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains

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Occurrence of the Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains

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Author: Fitch, Henry S. (Henry Sheldon),1909-2009
Format: eBook
Language: English

Occurrence of the Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains

The common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) has by far the most extensive geographic range of any North American reptile, covering most of the continental United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from south of the Mexican boundary far north into Canada and southeastern Alaska. Of the several recognized subspecies, the eastern T. s. sirtalis has the most extensive range, but that of T. s. parietalis in the region between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains is almost as large. The more western T. s. fitchi occurring from the Oregon and California coasts east through the northern Great Basin, has the third largest range, while the far western subspecies pickeringi, concinnus, infernalis and tetrataenia, and the Texan T. s. annectens all have relatively small ranges. Since the publication of Ruthven's revision of the genus Thamnophis more than 50 years ago, little attention has been devoted to the study of this widespread and variable species, except in the Pacific Coast states (Van Denburgh, 1918; Fitch, 1941; Fox, 1951). However, Brown (1950) described the new subspecies annectens in eastern Texas, and many local studies have helped to clarify the distribution of the species in the eastern part of the continent and to define the zone of intergradation between the subspecies sirtalis and parietalis. In our study attention has been focused upon parietalis in an attempt to determine its western limits and its relationships to the subspecies that replace it farther west. Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis Say was described (as Coluber parietalis) in 1823 from a specimen obtained in what is now Washington County, Nebraska, on the west side of the Missouri River three miles upstream from the mouth of Boyer's River [Iowa], or approximately eight miles north of Omaha. Although the type locality was unequivocally stated in the original description, Nebraska was not mentioned since the state was not yet in existence. Because [pg 292] the mouth of Boyer's River, the landmark by means of which the type locality is defined, is in Iowa, the impression has been imparted that the type locality itself is in Iowa (Schmidt, 1953:175), and to our knowledge the type locality has never been associated with Nebraska in the literature. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 33966
Author: Fitch, Henry S. (Henry Sheldon)
Release Date: Sep 28, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English

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