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The Texas brown snake (Storeria dekayi texana), a subspecies of Storeria dekayi, is a nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae. It is endemic to North America. [1]
Dorsally, S. dekayi is brown to gray with a lighter center stripe bordered by small black spots; ventrally, it is lighter brown or pink with small black dots at the ends of the ventral scales. [6] Adults usually measure less than 12 inches (30 cm) in total length (including tail), but the record total length is 19 + 3 ⁄ 8 inches (49 cm). [ 7 ]
This list of reptiles of Texas includes the snakes, lizards, crocodilians, and turtles native to the U.S. state of Texas.. Texas has a large range of habitats, from swamps, coastal marshes and pine forests in the east, rocky hills and limestone karst in the center, desert in the south and west, mountains in the far west, and grassland prairie in the north.
The brown snake, which experts call the dekay from its latin name Storeria dekayi, is “the most victimized snake in our area,” Chavis said. Homeowners think these snakes, which can grow to ...
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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 occipitomaculata (Storer, 1839) – redbelly snake Storeria occipitomaculata obscura Trapido, 1944 ...
O. aeneus is an extremely slender snake that reaches up to 1.9 metres (6.2 ft) in total length (including a long tail). Its color may vary from gray to brown with a yellow underside. An adult O. aeneus perches in the tree on the left. Mexican vine snakes disappear in their natural habitat; their cryptic morphology provides them with highly ...
Eating a DeKay's brown snake The eastern copperhead is a diet generalist and is known to feed on a wide variety of prey, including invertebrates (primarily arthropods ) and vertebrates . A generalized ontogenetic shift in the diet occurs, with juveniles feeding on higher percentages of invertebrates and ectotherms , and adults feeding on a ...