Virginia striatula (Rough Earth Snake)
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ROUGH
EARTH SNAKE
Virginia striatula (Linnaeus, 1766)
STATUS: Common
LOCALITIES OBSERVED: Collin
Co.: Brockdale Park area
near Lake Lavon; Dallas
Co.: below Bachman Lake dam, Seagoville area, Lemmon Lake, 4 mi S
of Grand Prairie, and Spring Creek area N of Garland; Denton Co.: .5
mi N of FM 455 near FM 372, Grapevine Lake area, and 1.2 mi N of Blackjack
Rd. and Main St. of Aubrey; Johnson
Co.: 6 mi S of Park Rd.
21 on US 67, 12.8 mi W of Rio Vista at Johnson Ranch, and 2.2 mi S of Park
Rd. 21 on US 67; Parker
Co.: Rio Brazos Estates S of Weatherford on the Brazos River and
3.5 mi N of Tx 199 in Springtown on FM 51;
Tarrant Co.: Wakeforest
Ct. and Hillridge Ct. in NW Arlington, Carswell Air Force Base, below
Grapevine Lake dam, Briarwood in Arlington, Euless area, Benbrook-Aledo
Rd., and Riverside area of Ft. Worth;
Wise Co.: Lyndon
B. Johnson Nat'l Grasslands NW of Decatur and 2.4 mi NNW of Decatur
DOCUMENTED COUNTIES: Collin,
Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Hood, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Somervell, Tarrant,
and Wise
HABITAT: Trinity River
Bottoms, Eastern Cross Timbers, Western Cross Timbers, Mesquite Grand
Prairie, Fort Worth Prairie, Blackland Prairie, and Brazos River Bottoms COMMENTS: One of the few snakes that is common in residentual areas. |