Garden snake

Weight

138 g – 170 gsrc for Weight

Length

up to 1.4 msrc for Length

Lifespan

8.99 yearssrc for Lifespan

Diet

Carnivoresrc for Diet

Longest recorded lifespan

20 years

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

forestsrc for Habitat

Egg incubation

100 dayssrc for Egg incubation

Young per litter or clutch

7.6 – 32.5src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

22.5 months – 3 yearssrc for Age at maturity

Litters or clutches a year

0.23 – 1src for Litters or clutches a year

Reproduction

Live birthsrc for Reproduction

Active

By day (diurnal)src for Active

Brain mass

77 mg – 123 mg (0.182% of body mass)src for Brain mass

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

Not recorded

Not recorded

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classReptilia
4. orderSquamata
5. familyColubridae
6. genusThamnophis
7. SpeciesThamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms Coluber ibibe, Coluber infemalis, Coluber ordinatus, Coluber parietalis, Coluber sirtalis, Coluber taenia, Eutaenia dorsalis, Eutaenia infernalis, Eutaenia sirtalis graminea, Eutaenia sirtalis melanota, Eutaenia sirtalis obscura, Eutaenia sirtalis obscura, Eutaenia sirtalis semiifasciata, Eutainia dorsalis, Eutainia pickeringii, Eutainia sirtalis, Eutainia sirtalis trilineata, Thamnophis sirtalis lowei, Thamnophis sirtalis semifasciatus, Tropidonotus bipunctatus, Tropidonotus concinnus, Tropidonotus obalskii, Tropidonotus ordinatus

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistITISTAXREFWikidataWoRMS

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@misc{garden_snake_2026,
  title = {Garden snake (Thamnophis sirtalis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/garden-snake},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}