Storeria dekayi

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iBrown Snake
Texas Brown SnakeStoreria dekayi texana
Texas Brown Snake
Storeria dekayi texana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Natricinae
Genus: Storeria
Species: S. dekayi
Binomial name
Storeria dekayi
Holbrook, 1836
For other species commonly referred to as the brown snake, see brown snake.

The Brown Snake is a small species of colubrid snake native to most of the eastern half of the United States, through Mexico and into Central America. The epithet dekayi is in honor of Portuguese-American zoologist James Ellsworth Dekay who collected the first specimen in Long Island, New York.[1]

[edit] Subspecies

There are nine recognized subspecies of S. dekayi:

  • Storeria dekayi anomala (Dugés, 1888)
  • Northern Brown Snake, Storeria dekayi dekayi (Holbrook, 1836)
  • Marsh Brown Snake, Storeria dekayi limnetes (Anderson, 1961)
  • Storeria dekayi temporalineata (Trapido, 1944)
  • Texas Brown Snake, Storeria dekayi texana (Trapido, 1944)
  • Storeria dekayi tropica (Cope, 1885)
  • Florida Brown Snake, Storeria dekayi victa (Hay, 1892)
  • Midland Brown Snake, Storeria dekayi wrightorum (Trapido, 1944)
  • Mexican Yellowbelly Brown Snake, Storeria hidalgoensis (Taylor, 1942)

[edit] References


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