Posts Tagged ‘dekay’s brownsnake’

Dekay’s brownsnake is common, small, secretive, nocturnal and seldom found out in the open.  Their Latin name is Storeria dekayi.  The species name dekayi honors James Ellsworth Dekay, a naturalist/zoologist who collected the first specimen of this snake on Long Island, New York and Storeria honors David Humphreys Storer, an American physician/naturalist/ zoologist.  This is…