THE CENTER FOR NORTH AMERICAN HERPETOLOGY
Loading taxon account
Retrieving account information and occurrence data...

Reptilia    Squamata (part-snakes)    Colubridae  
Florida Rough Greensnake
Opheodrys carinatus Grobman, 1984
OH-fee-oh-dreez — kar-ee-NAY-tus
Taxon Links
iNaturalist
The Reptile Database
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
NatureServe
GenBank
USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 See comments under O. aestivus. (Boundy, Jeff, Frank T. Burbrink, and Sara Ruane. 2025. Squamata (excluding lizards) – Snakes. Pages 38-54 in Kirsten E. Nicholson (Editor), Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding, 9th Edition. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Lawrence, Kansas. 87 pp.)

(,   Museum Voucher) (,   Observation) (,   Literature Record), (,   Citizen Science), (  Fossil)
Open icons indicate questionable records, including those with coordinate uncertainty greater than 10,000 m (approximately 6 miles). Click a marker to view metadata.
Occurrences:; 1,155 Total; 703 Museum; 452 Other

The locality database contains 8,094,832 records, and geographic and taxonomic errors exist. Logged-in, registered users may report a potential issue directly from the marker popup.
Shaded range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH. (Version: 2024.02.18.21.18.16)
Download map data (GeoJSON):
Polygon Range File Museum Literature Fossil Personal Observation Citizen Science

Province/State Distribution:
United States: Florida

Taxonomic Etymology:
Named for its arboreal habits and prominent scale keels.
Opheodrys — From Greek ophis (ὄφις), meaning “snake,” and drys (δρῦς), meaning “tree” or “oak,” referring to its arboreal (tree-dwelling) nature—literally “tree snake.”
carinatus — From Latin carina (keel) and the suffix -atus, meaning “keeled” or “having a keel,” referring to the prominent keels on the dorsal scales.

First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.


Selected References:
1984 Grobman, Arnold B. Scutellation variation in Opheodrys aestivus. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 29(3):153-170
1987 Plummer, Michael V. Geographic variation in body size of Green Snakes (Opheodrys aestivus). Copeia 1987:483-485
1992 Grobman, Arnold B. On races, clines, and common names in Opheodrys. Herpetological Review 23(1):14-15
2000 Walley, Harlan D. and Michael V. Plummer. Opheodrys aestivus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (718):1-14

THE CENTER FOR NORTH AMERICAN HERPETOLOGY — Accessed: Saturday 26 September 2026 17:09 CT
Site concept, design, and programming: Travis W. Taggart (CNAH President/Executive Director).
CNAH usage since 31 August 2026: 179,793 human page views • 95,305 visitors • 83,879 file accesses