grylio) 0 0 0 0 Unidentified frogs (Ranidae sp.) 2 1 0 0 Amphibians total 5 3 0 1 Water snakes (Nerodia sp.) 0 1 0 0
Ribbon snake (Thamnophis sauritus) 1 0 0 0 Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus) 0 0 0 0 Carolina anolis (Anoils carolinensis) 0 0 0 0 Turtles (Emydidae sp.) 0 0 0 0 Reptiles total 1 1 0 0 Total predation events 6 4 0 1 Month Mar.
Burdick of the Newport Chemical Depot (Whitaker, 1994), including the eastern ribbon snake (Thamnophis sauritus), worm snake (Carphophis amoenus), northern ringneck snake (Diadophis punctatus), eastern hognose snake (Heterodon platirhinos), and prairie king snake (Lampropeltis calligaster).
The western ribbon snake (Thamnophis proximus) and rough green snake (Opheodrys aestivus) were not found, but they are probably present.
The ribbon snake is the dominant species of snake of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Old Sabine Wildlife Management Area (OSBWMA), a bottomland hardwood forest along a stretch of the Sabine River in northeastern Texas (Doles 2000).
The western ribbon snake (Thamnophis proximus): Ecology of a western population.
Thirty species of reptiles (N=1909) were encountered, dominated by Alabama red-bellied turtles (N=734), Mississippi green water snakes (N=197), American alligators (N=177),
ribbon snakes (N=156), mud turtles (N=136), and cottonmouths (N=99).
Cottonmouths and rough green snakes were observed during every survey; racers, timber rattlesnakes, and gray ratsnakes were detected during seven surveys (87.5% of surveys); western
ribbon snakes (Thamnophis proximus) were sighted during five surveys (62.5%); copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix) were encountered during three surveys (37.5%), plainbelly water snakes (Nerodia erythrogaster) and common garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) were detected during two surveys (25%); and brown snakes (Storeria dekayi) and a single northern water snake were sighted during one survey (12.5%).
These include river otter, raccoons, beavers, green frogs, and western
ribbon snakes.
Ribbon snakes are slender with extremely long tails and keeled scales.
Garter snakes and
ribbon snakes are even easier to identify.
EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON THE IMMUNE RESPONSE OF WESTERN
RIBBON SNAKES (THAMNOPHIS PROXIMUS RUBRILINEATUS).
While no human but an informed researcher would look at this patch of forest twice (except perhaps ruefully upon losing a golf ball in the muck), it remains a small haven for Blanding's turtles and the other creatures that have moved in with them: spotted turtles,
ribbon snakes, muskrats, and birds such as the red-winged blackbird and cedar waxwing.
They also increased the ease of capture of some of the more elusive species, i.e., western
ribbon snakes and yellow-bellied racers.
Critters sighted that day included a juvenile and an adult yellowbelly snake, several water moccasins or cottonmouths, a six-inch mud snake, several western
ribbon snakes, several of the threatened greens, and an earth snake.
Thus, while speckled kingsnakes (Lampropeltis getulus holbrooki), eastern hognosed snakes (Heterodon platyrhinos), western slender glass lizards (Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus), eastern coachwhip snakes, blotched watersnakes, western
ribbon snakes (Thamnophis proximus proximus), Texas garter snakes and southern copperheads were observed during this study, there are no official records for these species in Delta County (based on Dixon 1987 and distribution records cited in Herpetological Review from 1985 to 1998).
