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Last update: 18 June, 2003

A genus of fossorial small snakes from North America and Mexico.

Storeria Baird & Girard, 1853
(Type = Tropidonotus dekayi Holbrook, 1842)
Storeria dekayi (Holbrook, 1842)
  • dekayi (Holbrook, 1842)
    Ischnognathus dekayi (Holbrook, 1842)
    Tropidonotus dekayi Holbrook, 1842
  • anomala Dugès, 1888
  • limnetes Anderson, 1961
  • temporalineata Trapido, 1944
  • texana Trapido, 1944
  • tropica Cope, 1885
    Storeria tropica Cope, 1885
  • victa Hay, 1892
    Storeria victa Hay, 1892
  • wrightorum Trapido, 1944
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    Distribution: Canada (dekayi), Guatemala (tropica), Honduras (tropica), Mexico (anomal, temporalineata, texana) and USA (dekayi, limnetes, texana, victa, wrightorum)
    Storeria hidalgoensis Taylor, 1942
    Storeria occipitomaculata hidalgoensis Taylor, 1942
    Distribution: Mexico.
    Storeria occipitomaculata (Storer, 1839)
  • occipitomaculata (Storer, 1839)
    Coluber leberis Linnaeus, 1758 Nomen nudum
  • obscura Trapido, 1944
  • pahasapae Smith, 1963
  • Distribution: Canada (occipitomaculata) and USA (all).

    Storeria storerioides (Cope, 1866)
    Tropidoclonium storerioides Cope, 1866
    Distribution: Mexico.
    Literature
    Anderson, R. 1989. The Great Outdoors Book of Florida Snakes. Great Outdoors, St. Petersburg, 129 pp.
    Ballinger, R.E. & W. Beachly. 1999. Geographic Distribution. Storeria occipitomaculata. Herpetol. Rev., 30(4): 236-237.
    Behler, J.L. & F.W. King. 1979. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles & Amphibians. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 743 pp.
    Bittner, R.T. & T.D. Bittner. 2001. Geographic Distribution. Storeria occipitomaculata. Herpetol. Rev., 32(4): 280.
    Bloch, C. 1993. Brun snog, Storeria dekayi. NHF, 36(4): 64.
    Brach, V. 1996. City Snakes: Storeria dekayi. Reptile Hobbyist, 2(1): 51-53.
    Bryant, C.A. 1999. Geographic Distribution. Storeria occipitomaculata. Herpetol. Rev., 30(4): 236.
    Casper, G.S. 2001. Geographic Distribution. Storeria occipitomaculata occipitomaculata. Herpetol. Rev., 32(3): 196.
    Cochran, A.G., P.A. Cochran, J.A. Cochran & C.D. Knight. 2001. Geographic Distribution. Storeria dekayi. Herpetol. Rev., 32(4): 280.
    Farley, G.H. 1999. Geographic Distribution. Storeria dekayi. Herpetol. Rev., 30(2): 114.
    Gray, B.S. 2002. Storeria dekayi dekayi and S. occipitomaculata occipitomaculata. Morphology. Herpetol. Rev., 33(3): 216.
    Grudzien, T.A. & P.J. Owens. 1991. Genic Similarity in the Gray and Brown Color Morphs of the Snake Storeria occipitomaculata. J. Herpetol., 25(1): 90-92.
    Hibbitts, T.D. & J.H. Malone. 1997. Geographic Distribution. Storeria occipitomaculata obscura. Herpetol. Rev., 28(4): 211.
    Irwin, K.J. & W.B. Blihovde. 2001. Geographic Distribution. Storeria occipitomaculata. Herpetol. Rev., 32(1): 61.
    King, R.B. 1993. Determinants of Offspring Number and Size in the Brown Snake, Storeria dekayi. J. Herpetol., 27(2): 175-185.
    King, R.B. 1997. Variation in Brown Snake (Storeria dekayi) Morphology and Scalation: Sex, Family, and Microgeographic Differences. J. Herpetol., 31(3): 335-346.
    Krysko, K.L. & A.T. Reppas. 1998. Geographic Distribution. Storeria dekayi wrightorum. Herpetol. Rev., 29(2): 116.
    Mosier, D. & J.T. Collins. 1998. Geographic Distribution. Storeria occipitomaculata. Herpetol. Rev., 29(2): 116.
    Peters, J.A. & B. Orejas-Miranda. 1970. Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata. Part I. Snakes. Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 297: 1-347.
    Petzing, J.E. & C.A. Phillips. 1998. Geographic Distribution. Storeria dekayi. Herpetol. Rev., 29(2): 116.
    Petzing, J.E., M.H. Sabaj & R. Doerscheln. 1998a. Geographic Distribution. Storeria dekayi. Herpetol. Rev., 29(1): 55.
    Ramírez-Bautista, A., G. Gutiérrez-Mayén & A. Gonzales-Romero. 1995. Clutch Sizes in a Community of Snakes from the Mountains of the Valley of México. Herpetol. Rev., 26(1): 12-13.
    Rossman, D.A. & P.A. Myer. 1990. Behavioral and Morphological Adaptations for Snail Extraction in the North American Brown Snakes (Genus Storeria). J. Herpetol., 24(4): 434-438.
    Townsend, J.H., K.L. Krysko & S.A. Krueger. 2001. Geographic Distribution. Storeria occipitomaculata obscura. Herpetol. Rev., 32(1): 61.
    Walley, H.D. 2001. Geographic Distribution. Storeria occipitomaculata. Herpetol. Rev., 32(2): 125.
    Wood, K.N. 1998. Geographic Distribution. Storeria occipitomaculata obscura. Herpetol. Rev., 29(4): 249.