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Brown Snake (Storeria dekayi) - Wiki
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Storeria dekayi
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[Photo] Texas Brown Snake, Storeria dekayi texana. Photographer: LA Dawson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dawson
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.
Subspecies
There are nine recognized subspecies of S. dekayi:
Storeria dekayi anomala (Dug??s, 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)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storeria_dekayi
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