Earthsnakes
Virginia
Virginia is a genus of small, terrestrial snakes in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. The genus is native to the United States. Species in the genus are commonly referred to as earth snakes.
2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species
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Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Museum of the Royal Society
Nehemiah Grew · 1681 · p.464
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...
Catesby, Mark, bioloog, kunstenaar · 1743 · p.362
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.208
Mark Catesby — Piscium, serpentum, insectorum (pt. 1) (1750)
Mark Catesby · 1750 · p.169
François Bouchard — Recueil de cent-trente-trois oiseaux des plus belles especes (1775)
François Bouchard · 1775 · p.115
Ten Books of Exotic Things
Carolus Clusius · 1605 · p.43
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx — Moninckx Atlas, vol. 2 (1686)
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx · 1686 · p.24
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx — Moninckx Atlas, vol. 5 (1686)
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx · 1686 · p.13
Christoph Jakob Trew — Uitgezochte planten (1771)
Christoph Jakob Trew · 1771 · p.283
Mark Catesby — Piscium, serpentum, insectorum (pt. 2) (1777)
Mark Catesby · 1777 · p.90
Ten Books of Exotic Things
Carolus Clusius · 1605 · p.51
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Virginia in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 28101.