Description: The Blind Snake also known as the Thread Snake or Texas Thread Snake is a very small fossorial species, pinkish brown in color, shiny scales, non segmented two little black dots as eyes.Often mistaken as an earthworm. Score E - Relatively Stable (±25% change). Family: Colubridae. Three subspecies of Thamnophis elegans are found in California - T. e. vagrans - Wandering Gartersnake, T. e. e.egans-Mountain Gartersnake, and T. e. terrestris - Coast Gartersnake. The snakes themselves are often prey for hawks. Pictures of Thamnophis elegans… Range: Thamnophis elegans arizonae – Navajo County and Apache County in Arizona, as well as the neighboring areas in Mexico. Geographic range, habitat, and diet The two-striped garter snake is found in western North America, ranging from central California to Baja California , Mexico . 1998. Range Extent. are some of the best known of any temperate species of snakes (Rossman and others 1996). Wright AH, Wright AA (1957). Their range extends from Texas to California along the border. Thamnophis eques megalops (Northern Mexican Gartersnake) Reproduction Herpetological Review 50 (1): 88-89 Kennicott, R. 1860. Gregory, P.T., and C.J. Current taxonomy recognizes either five or six subspecies of T. elegans based on color and scale morphology, but all agree on three major geograph-ic races (T. e. elegans, terrestris, and vagrans). There are 5 mapped species of turtles in California. 2015 Thamnophis eques eques (REUSS 1834) Coluber eques REUSS 1834 Eutaenia flavilabris COPE 1867 Thamnophis … Although the cytochrome b phylogeny did not match subspecific classification of the populations, it did yield geographi- Thamnophis eques megalops (Northern Mexican Gartersnake) Reproduction Herpetological Review 50 (1): 88-89 Kennicott, R. 1860. Prelypchan. Score G - 200,000-2,500,000 km squared (about 80,000-1,000,000 square miles) Comment 304,213 square Kilometers from Natural Heritage Program range maps. Descriptions of new species of North American serpents in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington. Descriptions of new species of North American serpents in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington. Comment Habitat is likely stable within +/- 25% since European settlement, the increasing in stock ponds may have increased the amount of habitat for this … Long-term Trend . Gartersnakes (Thamnophis spp.) Some 309 310 NORTHWESTERN NATURALIST Three different subspecies of the Western Terrestrial Garter Snake (Thamnophis elegans) inhabit western North America.

Adults range from 20–30 inches (50.8–76.2 cm) in total length.