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Storeria dekayi, commonly known as De Kay's brown snake, De Kay's snake, and simply the brown snake (along with many other snakes), is a small non-venomous species of snake in the family Colubridae. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The species is native to North America and Central America .
English: Range map of De Kay's snake (Storeria dekayi). Populations of central Guatemala and Honduras are not shown on map. Populations of central Guatemala and Honduras are not shown on map. Date
Storeria dekayi limnetes Anderson, 1961 – marsh brown snake; Storeria dekayi temporalineata Trapido, 1944; Storeria dekayi texana Trapido, 1944 – Texas brown snake; Storeria dekayi tropica Cope, 1885; Storeria dekayi wrightorum Trapido, 1944 – midland brown snake; Storeria hidalgoensis Taylor, 1942 – Mexican yellowbelly brown snake ...
Storeria dekayi texana is ovoviviparous. Females bear live young in August and early September. Each young emerges in a fine tissue sac, which after bursting remains attached to the ventrum, but is quickly shed. Brood size varies from 3 to 15. The newborns measure 9–11.5 cm (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in total length. [3]
Storeria victa, the Florida brown snake, is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae. [3] It is endemic to Georgia and Florida in the United States. [ 4 ]
Hill's drawings of birds for De Kay's Zoology of New York were significant in that they represented the first time hand-colored lithographs were used to illustrate a state bird book. De Kay collected the first specimen of a species of small brown snake on Long Island, which was named for him as Storeria dekayi (Holbrook, 1836). [9]
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