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Florida Brown Snake (Storeria victa)STATUS





Description: Florida Brown Snakes are small, 9 to 13 inches, brown to gray snakes, with keeled scales, a light band across the back of the neck, and dark pigment on the lip scales. There are often a series of tiny black dots along each side of the belly. This snake looks similar to the earth snakes (Virginia sp.) but those species lack spots on the head and along the sides of the belly. Rough earth snakes (H. striatula) have a much more pointed head than Storeria. They can be distinguished from redbellied snakes (Storeria occipitomaculata) by their lack of red underside and from the other brown snakes (Storeria dekayi) by geographic range and presence of light neck band. Some authorities consider the Florida brown snake to be a subspecies of the more widespread brown snake (S. dekayi).


Habitat: This species can be found in a variety of habitats but is most common is moist habitats with abundant ground cover. Such habitats include hardwood hammocks, swamp and wetland margins, and even suburban yards.


Range: It is endemic to Georgia and Florida in the United States.


Found in these States: FL | GA


Diet: he diet of the Florida brown snake primarily consists of earthworms, slugs, snails, frogs, small fish, and salamanders .


Reproduction: This species is viviparous, and females give birth to 3 to 31 young, in summer. They probably reach sexual maturity within 3 years.


Status: Restricted to Florida and southeastern Georgia but secure.


Taxonomy:

»» Kingdom: Animalia - Animals
   »» Phylum: Chordata - Chordates
     »» Subphylum: Vertebrata - Vertebrates
       »» Class: Reptilia - Reptiles
         »» Order: Squamata - Scaled Reptiles
           »» Suborder: Serpentes
             »» Superfamily: Colubroidea
               »» Family: Colubridae - Colubrids
                   »» Genus: Storeria
                     »» Species: Storeria victa - Florida Brown Snake

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Storeria victa", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. Content may have been omitted from the original, but no content has been changed or extended.

 

 

 

 


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