Home - Taxonomy - Geography - Biodiversity - Literature - Purchase RepFocus Recent updates Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk). Latest update: December 31st, 2022. Taxonomy of the family Colubridae Bibliography of the genus Storeria Biodiversity of the family Colubridae Genus Storeria North American Brown Snakes Nordamerikanische Braunnattern Nordamerikanske Brunsnoge 1853 Storeria Girard (type species: Tropidonotus dekayi Holbrook 1842) 1854 Ischnognathus Dumeril, Bibron & Dumeril (type species: Tropidonotus dekayi Holbrook 1842) 1888 Hemigenius Dugès (type species: Hemigenius variabilis Dugès 1888) Contents: 5 species, of which 3 (60.0%) are endemic. Endemism: 0% 100% Distribution: North America, N. Central America. Reported from: Canada (Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia [incl. Cape Breton Island], Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan), Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico (Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Distrito Federal, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Zacatecas), USA (Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York [incl. Long Island], North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming). Storeria dekayi Common Brown Snake, (Dekay's Brown Snake, Dekay's Snake) Nördliche Braunnatter Nordamerikansk Brunsnog 1842 Tropidonotus Dekayi Holbrook Storeria dekayi Baird & Girard 1853 1885 Storeria tropica Cope Storeria dekayi tropica Sabath & Sabath 1969 1888 Storeria dekayi anomala Dugès 1944 Storeria dekayi temporalineata Trapido 1944 Storeria dekayi texana Trapido 1944 Storeria dekayi wrightorum Trapido 1961 Storeria tropica limnetes Anderson Storeria dekayi limnetes Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970 Other common names: anomala: Dugès' Brown Snake dekayi: Northern Brown Snake limnetes: Marsh Brown Snake temporalineata: Trapido's Brown Snake texana: Texas Brown Snake tropica: Tropical Brown Snake wrightorum: Midland Brown Snake Remarks: Previously included victa. Introduced to: Bahamas (Little Bahama Bank). Distribution: Canada (Ontario, Quebec), Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico (Chiapas, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Nuevo Leon, Puebla, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Veracruz), USA (Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York [incl. Long Island], North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin). Storeria hidalgoensis Mexican Yellow-bellied Brown Snake, (Taylor's Brown Snake) Gelbbauch-Braunnatter Gulbuget Brunsnog 1942 Storeria hidalgoensis Taylor Storeria occipitomaculata hidalgoensis Fugler 1956 Remarks: Status of hidalgoensis has been disputed. Previously regarded as a subspecies of occipitomaculata, then revalidated as a separate species by Flores-Villela (1993). More recently, it was synonymized with occipitomaculata again (Pyron, Hsieh, Lemmon, Lemmon & Hendry 2016), but this was refuted by Nevárez-de los Reyes, Lazcano, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson (2016). Distribution: Mexico (Coahuila, Hidalgo, Nuevo Leon, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas). Storeria occipitomaculata North American Red-bellied Snake Nordamerikanische Rotbauchnatter Nordamerikansk Rødbuget Snog 1839 Coluber occipito-maculatus Storer Storeria occipitomaculata Cope 1900 1847 Coluber venustus Hallowell (Schmidt 1953) 1944 Storeria occipitomaculata obscura Trapido 1963 Storeria occipitomaculata pahasapae Smith Other common names: obscura: Florida Red-bellied Snake occipitomaculata: Northern Red-bellied Snake pahasapae: Black Hills Red-bellied Snake Remarks: See under hidalgoensis. Distribution: Canada (Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia [incl. Cape Breton Island], Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan), USA (Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York [incl. Long Island], North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming). Storeria storerioides Mexican Brown Snake Mexicanische Braunnatter Mexicansk Brunsnog 1865 Tropidoclonium storerioides Cope Storeria storerioides Garman 1883 1888 Hemigenius variabilis Dugès (Smith & Taylor 1945) Remarks: Sometimes misspelled storeroides. Distribution: Mexico (Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Colima, Distrito Federal, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Zacatecas). Storeria victa Florida Brown Snake Florida-Braunnatter Florida-brunsnog 1892 Storeria victa Hay Storeria dekayi victa Neill 1950 Remarks: Revalidated as a separate species by Christman (1980), followed by others (e.g., Turner 2003; Crother (ed.) 2008, 2012), although not all (e.g., Wallach, Williams & Boundy 2014). Distribution: USA (Florida, Georgia).