#1678 · 🦎 reptiles

Common Wormsnake

Carphophis amoenus

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

Carphophis amoenus , commonly known as the worm snake , is a species of nonvenomous colubrid endemic to the Eastern United States. C. amoenus can be found east of the Mississippi, from southwest Massachusetts south to southern Alabama west to Louisiana and then north to Illinois. This species of snake protects a large range, and normally prefers a moist habitat in the rocky woodlands, under rotten wood of logs and stumps. Though this snake is quite abundant over...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 12,096iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
12,096 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Thomas Say in 1825 (201 years ago).