Opheodrys aestivus (Rough Green Snake)
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ROUGH
GREEN SNAKE
Opheodrys aestivus (Linnaeus, 1766)
STATUS: Common
LOCALITIES OBSERVED: Collin
Co.: near Highland Park
at Lake Lavon, near Brockdale Park at Lake Lavon, 2 mi E of Wylie, and 6
mi S of Farmersville; Dallas
Co.: Skillman Ave. at White Rock Creek, below Bachman Lake dam,
Camp Wisdom Boy Scout Camp, Midway and Spring Valley Rd., and Spring Creek
area N of Garland; Denton
Co.: near Argyle; Kaufman Co.: near
jct of FM 429 on US 80, 15.3 mi E of Kaufman on FM 243, and .9 mi S of jct
FM 2868 and .6 mi E of FM 1388; Parker
Co.: 2.8 mi SE of Aledo
on FM 2376, 5.9 mi SW of Wheatland on US 377, and Littlefield Bend on the
Brazos River; Somervell
Co.: US 67 bridge over
Brazos River; Tarrant Co.:
River Legacy Parks in NW Arlington, Boaz Park near Benbrook and Ft.
Worth Nature Center; Wise Co.: Lyndon
B. Johnson Nat'l Grasslands NW of Decatur and 7 mi N of Decatur
DOCUMENTED COUNTIES: Collin,
Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Hood, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Somervell, Tarrant,
and Wise
HABITAT: wooded areas
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