Polymorphism at its finest!

[redspot]

It's pretty cool how variable Thamnophis can be, sure my local concinnus very a bit but nothing like ordinoides.

Red stripe



Blue



Light tan/gold stripe



I don't know what to call this one



A few different ones together



I think it would be cool to start a thread of wild type garters from different areas showing extreme polymorphism.

Nate

[guidofatherof5]

I'd call this one "beautiful"

I don't know what to call this one

[Tyrel26]

I already added this pic to another thread but it seems to fit here as well

maritime garters

[BUSHSNAKE]

thanks redspot! gave a good feel of what you guys get to see, its crazy how variable ordinoides is compared to the size of their range, their range isnt all that big is it?

[redspot]

Tyrel those Marytimes are pretty cool.

Bushsnake, their range is west of the Cascades from southern Oregon up to extreme southern BC. I'm only representing about 5 square miles.

[BUSHSNAKE]

awesome thread, now can we see another 5 square miles?

[Hollis_Steed]

I'll take one of each please!

[ConcinusMan]

thanks redspot! gave a good feel of what you guys get to see, its crazy how variable ordinoides is compared to the size of their range, their range isnt all that big is it?

It's a much larger range than T.s. concinnus that's for sure.

I really like that last white striped one. Bottom pic, upper left. Nice. Looks very gravid too. You know, it's funny, you can go just 5 or 10 miles away and the ordinoides found will be completely different. There's a population near me that has mostly very dark colored snakes with very faint stripes and no patterns like the bottom pic, lower right. 3 miles from that, there's a population that is mostly orange or red striped brown snakes with lots of orange flecks.

Some more examples of T. ordinoides. ALL of these guys are from the same population and found in the same area of Oregon as the snakes Redspot has shown us:

[BUSHSNAKE]

and much smaller than radix

[ConcinusMan]

I currently have the largest T. ordinoides I have ever seen and she's only 2.5 feet long. Oh, hey! I just looked over at her and she's shedding. I'll post pics when she's done.