Smooth Green Snake

Smooth Green Snake

Taxobox
name = Smooth Green Snake
status = secure
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Colubridae
genus = "Opheodrys"
species = "O. vernalis"
binomial = "Opheodrys vernalis"
binomial_authority = (Harlan, 1827)The Smooth Green Snake ("Opheodrys vernalis", sometimes "Liochlorophis vernalis") is a non-venomous North American snake, also called a 'Grass Snake' in American English. It is a snake of increasing conservation concern in some U.S. states.

The snake is bright green and found mainly in moist meadows, prairies and clearings in coniferous forest. They are almost entirely insectivorous eating mainly crickets, grasshoppers, and smooth caterpillars.

These snakes tend to range in lengths of 12 to 36 inches, a relatively small snake. The females give birth to very small cyndrilical eggs. There are usually 3 to 13 eggs. They may hatch in as little as 4 days.

Picture link: [http://juliesmagiclightshow.com/963.php Smooth Greensake in Putney, VT]

External links

* [http://www.herpnet.net/Iowa-Herpetology/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=63&Itemid=26 Green Snake Species Account from Iowa Online Field Guide]


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