Reptiles › Colubrid Snakes

Lined Snake

Tropidoclonion lineatum

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 127, February 122, March 138, April 263, May 161, June 78, July 70, August 73, September 86, October 92, November 120, December 116.
United States4,131
Texas1,446
Kansas513
Colorado504
Oklahoma426
Missouri316
New Mexico192
Illinois120
Nebraska76
Iowa36

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • CarnivoreEats other animals or animal-derived prey as a major part of its diet.Inferred from its group

Group and habits

  • PredatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly hunt other animals.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumChordates · Chordata
ClassReptiles · Reptilia
OrderSnakes and Lizards · Squamata
FamilyColubrid Snakes · Colubridae
GenusLined Snakes · Tropidoclonion

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Sources

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Practise Lined Snake with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.