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#1661 · 🦎 reptiles

Rough Earthsnake

Virginia striatula

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe
Rough Earthsnake, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Ty Smith · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Haldea striatula (formerly Virginia striatula ), commonly called the rough earth snake , is a species of nonvenomous natricine colubrid snake native to the southeastern United States.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 14,757iNaturalist 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.
  • 14,757 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
Rough Earthsnake
scientific name
Virginia striatula
class
Reptilia
order
Squamata
family
Colubridae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
14,757
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Colubridae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 28102, Wikidata Q44213141, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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