Brown snakes [1] ( Latin Storeria ) - a genus of snakes from the family of aperile .
| Brown snakes |
Snake decay |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetric |
| Infraclass : | Lepidozavromorfy |
| Infrastructure : | Alethinophidia |
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| International Scientific Name |
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Storeria Baird & Girard, 1853 |
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The total length of representatives of this genus ranges from 20 to 35 cm. The head is small, wide. Chunky body. The color is mostly brown. The belly is yellowish or red. They have the ability to change skin color, darken, even become black. Along the body stretched narrow light stripes, between which are located the dark points.
Inhabit wet places, avoid open spaces. Active at night. They feed on invertebrates , snails , small amphibians .
These are ovoviviparous snakes.
They live in North and Central America .
As of July 2018, the genus includes 5 species [2] [1] :
- Storeria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839) - Snake Decay
- Storeria hidalgoensis Taylor, 1942
- Storeria occipitomaculata (Storer, 1839) - Brown-headed spotted snake
- Storeria storerioides (Cope, 1866)
- Storeria victa (Hay, 1892)
- ↑ 1 2 Ananyeva N. B. , Borkin L. Ya. , Darevsky I. S. , Orlov N. L. A five-language dictionary of animal names. Amphibians and reptiles. Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V.E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., 1988. - p. 330. - 10 500 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00232-X .
- ↑ The Reptile Database: Storeria (Eng.)
- Baird & Girard, 1853: Catalog of the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1.-Serpents. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, p. 1-172.
- Conant R. 1975. Second Edition . Boston: Houghton Mifflin. xviii + 429 pp. ISBN 0-395-19979-4 (hardcover), ISBN 0-395-19977-8 (paperback). (Genus Storeria , p. 153).
- Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5 . (Genus Storeria , p. 255).
