Wandering Gartersnake (Thamnophis elegans vagrans)

Created: May 13th, 2014 - 11:53 PM
Last Modified: June 25th, 2014 - 12:44 PM Entered by: Jason Hull
Record 185625

Country: United States		State: Nevada	County: Washoe County	Time: 2014-05-13 09:40:00
Qty: 1	Age: Adult	Sex: --	Method: Road cruising	Habitat: -----
Body Temperature: -----		Air Temperature: -----	Ground Temperature: -----	Humidity: -----
Sky Conditions: -----		Moon Phase: -----	Elevation: -----	Barometric Pressure: -----

Notes

This snake was seen crossing the road in south Reno (Huffaker and Del Monte LN). I have seen elagans elagans and sirtalis fitchi in the area many times but this snake looked a lot like the elagans vagrans that I've seen east of Reno. I did not think vagrans made it this far west so my ID is based on that alone.

After comparing the snake in the record to a dor elegans elegans found today ( 5/14/14) only a couple miles east, I am confident enough to change the listing of this snake to elegans vagrans.
Last three pics are of the dor elegans elegans for comparison.