Key to Unpatterned Snakes with Keeled Scales
Choose the snake that best fits the description.
If neither matches go back to the Key to the Colubrids.
A. Small snake (less than 40 cm), nape of neck has 3 light spots which
may fuse to form ring, back brown, gray or black with a single broad
stripe or 4 faint stripes or all 5 stripes, belly red, orange or yellow,
15 scales rows, Saskatchewan to Nova Scotia.
Storeria occipitomaculata (Redbelly Snake)
B. Small snake (less than 60 cm), back is gray, yellowish-brown
reddish-brown or brown, belly pale yellow, brown or pinkish with small
black dots along edges, 15-17 scale rows, southern Ontario and Quebec.
Storeria dekayi (Brown Snake)
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