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For those hoping to avoid getting close enough to inspect the position of the lateral stripe, other features may help in their identification. The head is unusually small for a garter snake, and, when excited, the effort this snake expends to escape seems to go more towards thrashing in place than to
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is a small, slender snake, averaging 38–51 cm (15–20 in) in total length (including tail), with three yellow to orange stripes along the length of its body. The background color can range from olive-brown to black, and it may also be possible to discern two rows of dark spots between the
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1164:Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope
610:The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles
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453:Description and identification
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318:Thamnophis radix butleri
859:at Animal Diversity Web
486:, but it may also eat
240:Tropidonotus ordinatus
49:Butler's garter snake
35:Butler's garter snake
863:Butler's Garter Snake
857:Butler's Garter Snake
353:Butler's garter snake
725:Butler's Gartersnake
270:Tropidonotus butleri
1044:butlers-gartersnake
732:on 4 September 2015
521:Conservation status
408:Brookville, Indiana
56:Conservation status
1154:Reptiles of Canada
913:Thamnophis butleri
883:Thamnophis butleri
821:Thamnophis butleri
774:Thamnophis butleri
685:Thamnophis butleri
661:Thamnophis butleri
622:Thamnophis butleri
582:Thamnophis butleri
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358:Thamnophis butleri
335:Thamnophis butleri
301:Thamnophis butleri
292:— Stejneger &
288:Thamnophis butleri
257:Thamnophis butleri
205:Thamnophis butleri
18:Thamnophis butleri
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875:Taxon identifiers
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376:. The species is
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831:A.A. Wright
606:Beolens, Bo
554:Smith, H.M.
492:salamanders
404:Amos Butler
1149:Thamnophis
1138:Categories
1107:Q109519962
797:Powell, R.
780:Cope, E.D.
679:. (1941).
677:D.D. Davis
639:. (1975).
541:References
511:T. butleri
500:hibernates
484:earthworms
458:T. butleri
419:T. butleri
374:Colubridae
235:Cope, 1889
174:Thamnophis
163:Colubridae
149:Suborder:
801:R. Conant
758:F.W. King
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447:Wisconsin
388:Etymology
263:Stejneger
250:Boulenger
181:Species:
153:Serpentes
109:Kingdom:
103:Eukaryota
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435:Michigan
222:Synonyms
159:Family:
143:Squamata
133:Reptilia
123:Chordata
119:Phylum:
113:Animalia
99:Domain:
76:IUCN 3.1
1080:8059340
1070:butleri
953:2457520
898:Q381402
596:(1889).
535:Ontario
527:Indiana
488:leeches
474:Ecology
439:Ontario
427:Indiana
397:butleri
378:endemic
369:in the
363:species
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294:Barbour
244:butleri
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