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Red-bellied Snake (Storeria occipitomaculata)
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ReptilesIn Ohio

Red-bellied Snake

Storeria occipitomaculata (Storer, 1839)

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Reptilia
Order
Squamata
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Storeria
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Range

Where it is recorded

Season shown in 0 of Ohio's 88 counties. Its mapped range covers 52. Explore Ohio

  • No result yet (35)
  • Within its mapped range (39)
  • Recorded, too few records for a result (13)
  • Recorded, season not shown (1)
  • Season shown (0)
Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files, 1:500,000. Range: USGS Gap Analysis Project, Species Range Maps CONUS_2001 (2018). Show as a table
Counties as a table
Red-bellied Snake by Ohio county: records and mapped range
CountyRecordsIn mapped range
Adams CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Allen CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Ashland CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Ashtabula CountyRecorded, too few records for a resultYes: year-round
Athens CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Auglaize CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Belmont CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Brown CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Butler CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Carroll CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Champaign CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Clark CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Clermont CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Clinton CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Columbiana CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Coshocton CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Crawford CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Cuyahoga CountyRecorded, too few records for a resultYes: year-round
Darke CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Defiance CountyRecorded, too few records for a resultNo
Delaware CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Erie CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Fairfield CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Fayette CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Franklin CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Fulton CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Gallia CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Geauga CountyRecorded, too few records for a resultYes: year-round
Greene CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Guernsey CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Hamilton CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Hancock CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Hardin CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Harrison CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Henry CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Highland CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Hocking CountyRecorded, too few records for a resultYes: year-round
Holmes CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Huron CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Jackson CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Jefferson CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Knox CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Lake CountyRecorded, too few records for a resultYes: year-round
Lawrence CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Licking CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Logan CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Lorain CountyRecorded, too few records for a resultYes: year-round
Lucas CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Madison CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Mahoning CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Marion CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Medina CountyRecorded, too few records for a resultYes: year-round
Meigs CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Mercer CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Miami CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Monroe CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Montgomery CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Morgan CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Morrow CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Muskingum CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Noble CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Ottawa CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Paulding CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Perry CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Pickaway CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Pike CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Portage CountyRecorded, too few records for a resultYes: year-round
Preble CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Putnam CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Richland CountyRecorded, too few records for a resultYes: year-round
Ross CountyRecorded, too few records for a resultYes: year-round
Sandusky CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Scioto CountyRecorded, too few records for a resultYes: year-round
Seneca CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Shelby CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Stark CountyRecorded, too few records for a resultYes: year-round
Summit County23 · Recorded, season not shownYes: year-round
Trumbull CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Tuscarawas CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Union CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Van Wert CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Vinton CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Warren CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Washington CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Wayne CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round
Williams CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Wood CountyNo qualifying records yetNo
Wyandot CountyNo qualifying records yetYes: year-round

Season

When it is recorded

In Ohio

Mid-April to late July, middle week mid-June, and again mid-August to late October, middle week late September

Recorded in two separate seasons, each shown with its own early, middle and late weeks.

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Recording in Ohio · records of all species each week, 1,691,199 in all

Records per week from 186 records in 9 of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025. Shows when people recorded it, not a season or how common it is.

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Records of Red-bellied Snake in Ohio each week, and records of all species
WeekRecords of Red-bellied SnakeYears recordedRecords of all species
Jan 4–10006,211
Jan 11–17005,146
Jan 18–24004,645
Jan 25–31004,698
Feb 1–7006,023
Feb 8–14005,888
Feb 15–21005,436
Feb 22–28006,846
Mar 1–7008,321
Mar 8–140010,384
Mar 15–210012,620
Mar 22–280013,949
Mar 29 – Apr 42219,661
Apr 5–112226,860
Apr 12–186339,925
Apr 19–252241,623
Apr 26 – May 22256,391
May 3–92252,952
May 10–164253,785
May 17–238557,698
May 24–3010454,651
May 31 – Jun 617553,099
Jun 7–134353,700
Jun 14–207256,625
Jun 21–2710455,361
Jun 28 – Jul 412558,477
Jul 5–117561,336
Jul 12–186564,722
Jul 19–258569,753
Jul 26 – Aug 18459,416
Aug 2–82159,712
Aug 9–153255,994
Aug 16–224154,328
Aug 23–294251,772
Aug 30 – Sep 53157,167
Sep 6–122259,075
Sep 13–198454,543
Sep 20–263345,860
Sep 27 – Oct 312443,180
Oct 4–108537,841
Oct 11–175430,824
Oct 18–246321,156
Oct 25–316419,021
Nov 1–72114,172
Nov 8–140012,621
Nov 15–21007,965
Nov 22–28008,136
Nov 29 – Dec 5006,083
Dec 6–12116,004
Dec 13–19005,423
Dec 20–26005,661
Dec 27 – Jan 2008,459

What these results show

These results show when people recorded a species, not when or where it occurs. Missing weeks and low counts do not mean absence or scarcity, and counts are not abundance. Contributed records reflect where, when and what people chose to observe.

Relatives

In the same genus

Other Storeria recorded in Ohio

DeKay's BrownsnakeStoreria dekayi

Identification

How to identify it

Often confused with

  • DeKay's Brownsnake Storeria dekayiOften confused in Ohio: 31 identifications in Ohio named one where the other was meant
  • Ring-necked Snake Diadophis punctatusOften confused in Ohio: 10 identifications in Ohio named one where the other was meant
  • Common Garter Snake Thamnophis sirtalis110 identifications worldwide named one where the other was meant
  • Common Wormsnake Carphophis amoenus47 identifications worldwide named one where the other was meant

From iNaturalist’s similar-species counts, refreshed monthly: confusions in Ohio first, then worldwide. Only species with an Ohio result are listed.

Months not reported

  1. Jan: no record
  2. Feb: no record
  3. Mar: recorded
  4. Apr: recorded
  5. May: recorded
  6. Jun: recorded
  7. Jul: recorded
  8. Aug: recorded
  9. Sep: recorded
  10. Oct: recorded
  11. Nov: recorded
  12. Dec: recorded

Not reported in Ohio in January to February, 2016 to 2025.

Time of day it is recorded

midnight6 amnoon6 pm

From 186 Ohio records with a time. Most records are made when people are outside, so night and early-morning species are under-recorded.

Land cover where it is recorded

Land coverIts recordsAll Ohio records
Forest62%31%
Developed21%49%
Farmland13%11%
Grassland and shrub3%0.9%
Wetland3%5%

From 39 records placed within 100 m, beside all Ohio records placed the same way. People record where they go, so this shows where records come from, not where the species lives. Land cover: USGS Annual NLCD, 2025 (opens in a new tab)

Finer identifications

Some Ohio records of this species were identified to a subspecies:

  • Storeria occipitomaculata occipitomaculataNorthern Redbelly Snakesubspecies

Every one of these records counts toward the Red-bellied Snake's season above.

Why some records go further than species

Many species vary from place to place. Groups of a species that look or sound a little different, and live in different areas, can be named as subspecies. Observers and experts only identify a record that far when it shows enough detail to tell them apart. Records without that detail count at the species level.

Names: Catalogue of Life.

Sources

Where these results come from

  • Records from iNaturalist research-grade observations and expert-identified GBIF datasets, CC0, CC BY and CC BY-NC. Sources
  • Seasons use the published method and its evidence thresholds. Methods
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Records behind the Ohio result

186 records from 1 dataset.

To cite: the GBIF download doi:10.15468/dl.y2jkt8 (opens in a new tab).

A spreadsheet (CSV) with a link to each record, on iNaturalist or GBIF. Records whose location was hidden by the observer or the source are counted but not linked.