[ **up: [[Animals]] | [[Reptiles]] | [[Squamates]] | [[Snakes]] | [[Colubrids]] | [[Thamnophis (Genus)]]** ] --- # Red-sided garter snake (*Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis*) A subspecies of the [[common garter snake]].[^1] --- ## Taxonomy - **[[Life (Biology)]]** - **[[Eukaryotes|Eukaryota (Domain)]]** - **[[Animals|Animalia (Kingdom)]]** - [[Chordates|Chordata (Phylum)]] - [[Reptiles|Reptilia (Class)]] - [[Squamates|Squamata (Order)]] - [[Snakes|Serpentes (Suborder)]] - [[Colubrids|Colubridae (Family)]] - [[Thamnophis (Genus)]] - *[[Red-sided garter snake|Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis]]* <small>RED-SIDED GARTER SNAKE</small> --- ## Reproduction ### Pheromones [[2025-0321. 'Some pheromones bypass the conventional chemosensory systems ... these pheromones have been called allohormone pheromones because they act like hormones outside the sender’s body.'|’In some species, hormones or other molecules are transferred along with the male’s sperm to the female when mating, causing females to reject other males. These molecules include prostaglandins in the semen of the red-sided garter snake Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis’]].[^2] [^1]: ‘Red-sided garter snake’, *Wikipedia*, updated 8 January 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-sided_garter_snake. [^2]: Tristram D. Wyatt, ‘[[Wyatt. ‘Pheromones’, 2017.|Pheromones]]’, *Current Biology*, vol. 27, issue 15 (7 August 2017), p. R743.