Striped Crayfish Snake

Liodytes alleni

The Striped Crayfish Snake is a small, secretive aquatic snake that specializes in eating crayfish. It has smooth scales and a yellowish belly with dark stripes. Found in cypress swamps and heavily vegetated water bodies.

Habitat

Cypress swamps, marshes, and other heavily vegetated wetlands

Diet

Crayfish and occasionally frogs

How common

Uncommon

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