In some local areas the Northern Red-Bellied Snake may be rather common, while in other areas that seem to have the proper habitat it may be totally lacking. Hawks and predatory mammals feed on this snake as they do on many other small snakes.
Red-bellied Snake (Storeria occipitomaculata occipitomaculata)
Description: A very small brown or gray snake with faint stripes down its back.
Little Red-bellied Snake
Storeria occipitomaculata occipitomaculata
Red-bellied Snake ...
Florida red-bellied snake
marsh brown snake
midland brown snake
Texas brown snake ...
Northern Red-bellied Snake
Storeria occipitomaculata occipitomaculata
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Common Name: Northern Red-bellied Snake
Scientific Name: Storeria occipitomaculata occipitomaculata
Wisconsin Status: not protected ...
Northern Red Bellied Snake
NORTHERN RED-BELLIED SNAKE
Storeria occipitomaculata occipitomacu/ata
Length 8-10 in.
(20-25 cm.) ...
The belly is tan to whitish and is not sharply defined in color from the color of the sides (as in the worm snake, Carphophis amoenus, and red-bellied snake, Storeria occipitomaculata).
Specific examples include eastern racers (Coluber constrictor), Fowler's toads (Bufo fowleri), eastern ribbonsnakes (Thamnophis sauritus), and red-bellied snakes (Storeria occipitomaculata) [48].
northern red-bellied snake (Storeria occipitomaculata occipitomaculata)
northern ringneck snake (Diadophis punctatus edwardsii)
northern scarlet snake (Cemophora coccinea copei)
northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon sipedon) ...
young Fox Snakes were being consumed by Racers when they were discovered (Jessen, 1993; Bergquist, pers comm.) and a large Eastern Garter Snake on another (Lydon, pers comm.). Young Racers have been seen eating small Brown and Red-bellied Snakes ...
 See also: Snake, Ribbon Snake, Rat snake, Rat, Water Snake
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