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    Species Accepted

    Thamnophis couchii (Kennicott, 1859)

    Couch's Garter Snake

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      9 results
      Cobra-liga-da-Sierra Portuguese
      Couch's Garter Snake English
      Couchs Strumpfbandnatter German
      Sierra Garter Snake English
      Western Aquatic Garter Snake English
      Westliche Strumpfbandnatter German
      Западная подвязочная змея Russian
      Калифорнийская подвязочная змея Russian
      西拉帶蛇 Chinese

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      31 results
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      Cope, E. D. (1900). The crocodilians, lizards and snakes of North America. Ann. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. 1898: 153-1270.
      Bellemin, Jeanne M.;Stewart, Glenn R. (1977). Diagnostic characters and color convergence of the garter snakes Thamnophis elegans terrestris and Thamnophis couchii atratus along the Central California coast. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 76 (2): 73-84.
      Germano, David J. and P.T. Smith. (2010). MOLECULAR EVIDENCE FOR PARTHENOGENESIS IN THE SIERRA GARTER SNAKE, THAMNOPHIS COUCHII (COLUBRIDAE). Southwestern Naturalist 55(2):280–282.
      REIMCHE, JESSICA S.; ROBERT E. DEL CARLO, EDMUND D. BRODIE JR, JOEL W. MCGLOTHLIN, KAREN SCHLAUCH, MICHAEL E. PFRENDER, EDMUND D. BRODIE III, NORMAND LEBLANC & CHRIS R. FELDMAN. (2022). The road not taken: Evolution of tetrodotoxin resistance in the Sierra garter snake (Thamnophis couchii) by a path less travelled. Molecular Ecology 31(14): 3827–3843.
      Beolens, B., & Michael Watkins, a. M. G. (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA.
      Stebbins, R. C. (1985). A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
      Crother, B. I. (ed.). (2012). Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Seventh Edition. Herpetological Circular 39: 1-92.
      Rossman, Douglas A.; Ford, Neil B. & Seigel, Richard A. (1996). The Garter Snakes: Evolution and Ecology. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, Xx + 332 + Pp.
      Bourguignon, T. (2002). Strumpfbandnattern: Herkunft - Pflege - Arten. E. Ulmer Verlag, 125 Pp.

      Citation

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