Which classification scheme that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year does the snake appear in?
Chinese zodiac The Chinese zodiac is a classification scheme that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating 12-year cycle. The 12-year cycle is an approximation to the 11.86-year orbital period of Jupiter, the largest planet of the solar system. It and its variations remain popular in several East Asian countries including China, Korea, Japan, and Mongolia, as well as in other Asian countries like Vietnam, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, along with the Buddhist calendar. According to the Chinese zodiac, 2017 is the year of the Rooster.
California red-sided garter snake The California red-sided garter snake ("Thamnophis sirtalis" infernalis) is a subspecies of the common garter snake. This slender species of natricine snake is indigenous to North America and is one of three recognized subspecies of "Thamnophis sirtalis" found in California. While commonly confused with "Thamnophis sirtalis" the subspecies "Thamnophis sirtalis" "infernalis" is biologically part of the population of T.s. Tetrataenia, as pointed out by Boundy and Rossman (1995), but was preserved as T.s. infernalis as a neotype under ICZN code Article 75 in a 2000 decision by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) in 2000 in order to preserve the existing subspecies taxonomy.