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Original – Garter snakes are Colubrid snakes common across North America, ranging from Alaska and Canada to Central America. This shows the Coast Garter Snake, Thamnophis elegans terrestris, a subspecies of the Western Terrestrial Garter Snake. Its subspecies designation, terrestris, means earthy.
Reason
We have a shortage of good snake images on Wikipedia. This is one of the really nice ones, taken in the wild.
Articles in which this image appears
Snake, Garter snake and two others
FP category for this image
Animals/Reptiles
Creator
Steve Jurvetson

Promoted File:Coast Garter Snake.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 21:14, 26 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]