Storeria victa
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Florida Brownsnake
Being most familiar with California snakes, when I first uncovered this little guy from under a log I was sure it was a young gartersnake of some sort. But Florida has a much wider variety of small stripey snakes than California, and this was no gartersnake.
Printed references:
- Behler, J. L., King, F. W. 1979. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles & Amphibians
- Conant, R., Collins, J. T. 1998. Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Third Edition, expanded
- Crother, B. I. (ed.) 2017. Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding, Eighth Edition
- Tennant, A. 1997. A Field Guide to Snakes of Florida