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Definition of Ring-necked snake
1. Noun. Any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck.
Generic synonyms: Colubrid, Colubrid Snake
Group relationships: Diadophis, Genus Diadophis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ring-necked Snake
Literary usage of Ring-necked snake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"WESTERN ring-necked snake, D. amabilis. Distribution.—Western States and the
Pacific region. b. Yellow collar obscure or absent. **Sei-enteen rows of scales ..."
2. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington, Smithsonian Institution (1908)
"Fairly common. 3. Diadophis punctatus (Limi.). ring-necked snake. 4. ... One was
found with the tail of a ring-necked snake (Diadophis ..."
3. Gleanings from Nature by Willis Stanley Blatchley (1899)
"-ru Growing to a length of a foot or more, the ring- necked snake is usually
found beneath the loose bark ..."
4. Collections by CT Historical Society (1901)
"... house or milk adder, field and swamp adder, the black snake, the red or brown
wood snake, the ring- necked snake, black water snake and rattlesnake. ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"The ring money of the East found its way at an early period to Western Europe
and the British Islands. ring-necked snake. A harmless American snake ..."
6. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States: Including the by David Starr Jordan (1878)
"... (L.) B. & G. RING - NECKED SNAKE. Head depressed; eye rather large; blue-black
above, bright pale orange below (yellowish in spirits); ..."
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