#1614 · 🦎 reptiles

DeKay's Brownsnake

🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Bruine Slang ·Storeria dekayi

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Chris Gruenwald Herp.mx · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Cristian Olvera · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Mila C. · CC BY 4.0
4. © Lee Elliott · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © Heather A. Wise · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Tigran Tadevosyan · CC BY 4.0
7. © jacqui · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Storeria dekayi , commonly known as the brown snake or De Kay's snake , is a small species of colubrid snake.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 71,880iNaturalist 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.
71,880 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by John Edwards Holbrook in 1836 (190 years ago).