Western Spotted Garter Snake

Eutaenia multimaculata, (Cope)

Colouration: Grayish or brown, without stripes, but marked with six or seven series of brown or reddish spots which are paler in their centres. The abdomen is cream colour, with black blotches on the edges of the plates.
Distribution: Southern New Mexico; northern Mexico.
Habits: This snake frequents the borders of streams and when alarmed plunges into the water, whence it dives to the bottom to conceal itself among aquatic vegetation.

This aquatic species occurs in the United States, only in southern New Mexico. It is common in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. The body scales are in 21 oblique rows. The species attains a length of about twenty-nine inches.