About: Green Water Snake   Sponge Permalink

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This species differs from all other North American water snakes by having one or more small scales under the eye, giving the appearance of a ring of small plates around the eye. These heavy-bodied snakes are dark green, olive, or brown dorsally. Ventrally they are yellowish on the anterior third, and the on remainder they are dark brown with yellow or white semicircles. They average 76-140 cm (30-55 in.) long; record, 188 cm (74 in.) for a specimen of N. c. floridana.

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  • Green Water Snake
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  • This species differs from all other North American water snakes by having one or more small scales under the eye, giving the appearance of a ring of small plates around the eye. These heavy-bodied snakes are dark green, olive, or brown dorsally. Ventrally they are yellowish on the anterior third, and the on remainder they are dark brown with yellow or white semicircles. They average 76-140 cm (30-55 in.) long; record, 188 cm (74 in.) for a specimen of N. c. floridana.
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Familia
Status
  • LC
Name
  • green water snake
subordo
status system
  • IUCN3.1
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ordo
subfamilia
Species
  • N. cyclopion
Genus
  • Nerodia
binomial authority
binomial
  • Nerodia cyclopion
synonyms
  • * Tropidonotus cyclopion Duméril & Bibron, 1854 * Natrix cyclopium Cope, 1892 * Nerodia cyclopium Garman, 1892 * Natrix cyclopion Schmidt & Davis, 1941
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Phylum
Subphylum
regnum
  • Animalia
abstract
  • This species differs from all other North American water snakes by having one or more small scales under the eye, giving the appearance of a ring of small plates around the eye. These heavy-bodied snakes are dark green, olive, or brown dorsally. Ventrally they are yellowish on the anterior third, and the on remainder they are dark brown with yellow or white semicircles. They average 76-140 cm (30-55 in.) long; record, 188 cm (74 in.) for a specimen of N. c. floridana.
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