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western terrestrial garter snake

Thamnophis elegans elegans

Photo by KarenSaxton
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

medium sized snake that eats slugs, amphibians and other small prey

Habitat:

Oregon coast

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (1)
AshleyT
Nice find! Please be sure to add this to the Snakes of the United States – CSC mission to help with their citizen science project! http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/12027210

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PublishedOctober 12, 2011

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