Talk:Smooth green snake

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Can anyone confirm that Image:Green, yellow snake.jpg is of a Smooth Green Snake? -- Solipsist 20:09, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Its a nice close up of the head. I am not sure of the identification and I am no expert. Googling for images of "smooth green snake" gives a few with very similar eyes and shape of head but a range of coloring. Candian Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Network has the closest I have found. But the Rough Green Snake Opheodrys aestivu shown at http://herpcenter.ipfw.edu/index.htm?http://herpcenter.ipfw.edu/gallery/snakes/&2 looks very similar to the head of the unidentified snake, perhaps more similar. Note the comment that the keeling on the scales is a way to tell the two apart. The same source says of the smooth green snake "The belly is ivory and the throat is pale white", and that agrees with our unidentified snake. The source for the photo says that it is in a reptile house, so could be from anywhere.We need an expert! Billlion 21:39, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

scientific name[edit]

It looks like this snake is both Liochlorophis vernalis and Opheodrys vernalis. Opheodrys is more popular so I just adding a mention of Liochlorophis. -Ravedave 02:40, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What you want to do is find out what the most authoritative taxonomy is and then see what the valid name is for the taxon according to that source. It's for this reason that WP:AAR settled on using the ITIS database as out primary source for snake taxonomy. ITIS lists Opheodrys vernalis as being the current valid name, so I imagine that Liochlorophis vernalis will be included as a synonym in Dr. McDiarmid's next checklist (Snake Species of the World, Vol. 2). --Jwinius (talk) 02:21, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Anonymous user changed name to Liochlorophis. Change was reversed based on ITIS database taxonomy.--Teresa J. Mayfield (talk) 13:29, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Help![edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedia editors! I have recently taken this article up as a project for my AP Biology class (as the banner above shows). I would greatly appreciate any help you are willing to give, whether it's from grammar to citation mistakes. Every correction would help me out immensely. :) Thanks. --Darby0341 (talk) 21:14, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I went through and made a few changes to the sentence structure. P0PP4B34R732 (talk) 21:37, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested reference] --Ettrig (talk) 11:55, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll take a look! --Darby0341 (talk) 21:08, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Conservation states[edit]

If possible, it would also be interesting to add which states the green snake is under protection in. And also any consertaion efforts, if any, should be noted somewhere on this page as well.P0PP4B34R732 (talk) 21:38, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Checking in - nothing formal[edit]

It is hunted by a good amount of predators. That phrases has never made sense to me; yet, I hear it all the time. How much is "good"?
36–51 cm... I would include both metric and English conversions.
The largest smooth green snake was measured as being 66 cm (26 in) long... I wonder if that should be "longest".
Just saw one on a trail in Northern Colorado (early April) which was at least 3ft long and about an inch in diameter. So, you might want to seriously adjust the maximum length listed!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.82.9.2 (talk) 20:24, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
When a smooth green snake is first born, It see first as a sequence, thus there is no second born. I would prefer another term to imply: at birth they are ...; however, at maturity they are ...
Enjoying warmth I need to address my concern over attributing emotional states in animals. They may prefer warmth over cold; yet, enjoy neither.
Smooth green snakes rely greatly on the environment for camouflage... I would drop 'greatly', as an unnecessary descriptor. Also, are they relying on the environment or rather their skin color /pigmentation?
If provoked, they can secrete a substance from its anal gland, causing a foul smell. That's interesting, is there any addition details out there regarding the nature of this chemical?
finding prey with its tongue and an organ on the roof of it's mouth I would name this organ and link it.
the snake has no eyelids, but its sight is relatively strong but is a "weak" transitional word, typically implying a contrast... this could be interpreted as "despite the lack of eyelids, they see well. I'm not certain that eyelids are a factor in vision - good or bad.
Due to stretchy ligaments in its jaw... Do they also unhinge their jaws? If so their ability to swallow large prey is as equally or more so accounted for by that feat.
During months when the weather is warmer, the snake tends to be active; while in the winter months, when the weather is cool That's a lot of words just to say their level of activity is temperature dependent. I would like to see research with specifics... at what temperature do they begin hibernation or during what specific months. In north America, the snakes seek shelter in late fall when the temperature dips below 47 degrees. (I made this up... does no one know?)
laying its eggs sometime from June to September. why is that word there; it seems to suggest a lack of confidence in their egg laying period or perhaps they sometimes lay eggs in May, April, etc... It makes the factoid non-committal.
tend to be about one inch in length (metric)... I'm seeing tend to be sometimes, occasional, may, and so many words among all the articles that suggest that information is marginal at best. I need to consult and see if this is appropriate.--JimmyButler (talk) 23:03, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the check up and suggestions. I've had a bit of a busy schedule, but I'll get on this ASAP. --Darby0341 (talk) 00:28, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Range Map[edit]

Hey Darbs(: you range map is complete it is in wikimedia commons! under smooth green snake map, you just hit the use on wikipedia button and it will give you a little format/link-y thing. Hope you like it, Abi(: — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stanfordbound 14 (talk • contribs) 02:01, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, here we go. File:Smooth Green Snake Map.png, search it on commons. loves you, Abi(: Stanfordbound 14 (talk) 13:25, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]