| 词条 | Storeria |
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| image = Storeria dekayi texana.jpg | image_caption = Texas brown snake, Storeria dekayi texana | taxon = Storeria | authority = Baird & Girard, 1853 | synonyms = Coluber, Ischnognathe, Ischnognathus, Tropidonotus | synonyms_ref = [1] }} Storeria is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to North America and Central America. The genus consists of five species, four of which are known as brown snakes, and the other of which is known as the redbelly snake. Geographic rangeSpecies in the genus Storeria are found in the eastern half of the United States and southern Canada and range south through Mexico and northern Central America.[2] EtymologyThe genus is named in honor of American physician and naturalist David Humphreys Storer (1804–1891).[2][3] DescriptionAs their common names imply, most snakes of the genus Storeria are a variant of brown in color. The brown can vary depending on locale, to be almost a brick red in color, to nearly black. They sometimes have a lighter-colored stripe down the center of the back, and small black blotches along the body, and just behind the head. The underside is usually lighter brown-colored, yellow, or in the case of the redbelly snake, reddish in color. They rarely grow beyond {{convert|13|in|cm|abbr=on}} in total length (including tail). One of the best means of identification is by scalation. Snakes in the genus Storeria have keeled dorsal scales. The head has no loreal scale, and the postnasal scale touches the preocular scale. So, only two scales are between the nasal opening and the eye. EcologyWithin their ranges, brown snakes are very commonly found species of snake. They are most frequently found under leaf litter or debris piles, and are sometimes turned up during gardening. They consume a variety of invertebrate prey, including, earthworms, snails and slugs. Their only means of defense are flattening of the body and excretion from the anal scent glands.[4][5] Brown snakes give birth to live young.[2] Species and subspecies
Nota bene: A binomial authority (or trinomial authority) in parentheses indicates that the species (or subspecies) was originally described in a genus other than Storeria. GalleryReferences1. ^Wright AH, Wright AA (1957). Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates, a Division of Cornell University Press. 1,105 pp. (in two volumes). (Genus Storeria, pp. 696-697). 2. ^1 2 {{cite journal|last=Ernst|first=Carl H.|title=Storeria |journal=Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles|year=2012|issue=900|pages=900.1–900.14}} 3. ^Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Genus Storeria, p. 255). 4. ^Schmidt KP, Davis DD (1941). Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 365 pp. (Genus Storeria, pp. 227-230). 5. ^Conant R (1975). A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Second Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. xviii + 429 pp. {{ISBN|0-395-19979-4}} (hardcover), {{ISBN|0-395-19977-8}} (paperback). (Genus Storeria, p. 153). Further reading
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