| checkered garter snake (Thamnophis scaliger) |
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| It is a very beautiful snake, whose dorsal surface is drawn into squares in black gray and of alternate way and divided by one yellow line that it crosses from the neck to the end of the tail. It gets to measure up to 60 cm and it is fed on frogs, charales, crickets and grasshopper. H?das is mainly in zones or near water bodies. It is of diurnal h?tos. A caracter?ica of this species is that to the held being, it emits a caracter?ico scent (musk) by the sewer like defense means. |