Since my foray into more diverse species of garter is somewhat of a recent obsession, all prior experience has been Easterns found in my own yard.

Now I am acquiring garters from other regions, and I have noticed something, I'm looking for any takes on this...

Garters from further out west seem to have much longer slender tapering tails compared to Eastern varieties.



My Puget seems to also have a longer more tapering tail.