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Nerodia fasciata (Southern Water Snake)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The banded water snake or southern water snake (Nerodia fasciata) is a species of mostly aquatic, nonvenomous, colubrid snake endemic to the central and southeastern United States.
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Infraspecies

Nerodia fasciata confluens (Broad-banded southern watersnake)
Nerodia fasciata fasciata (Banded watersnake)
Nerodia fasciata pictiventris (Southern watersnake)
Nerodia fasciata taeniata

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  405 grams
Birth Weight [1]  4 grams
Female Weight [1]  1.365 lbs (619 g)
Male Weight [1]  192 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  222.4 %
Female Maturity [1]  2 years
Male Maturity [1]  2 years
Litter Size [1]  20
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  10 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Lithobates capito (Gopher Frog)[2]
Scaphiopus holbrookii (Eastern Spadefoot)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Quiscalus quiscula (Common Grackle)1
Sturnus vulgaris (European Starling)1

Predators

Agkistrodon piscivorus (conanti)[3]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Anurans as prey: an exploratory analysis and size relationships between predators and their prey, L. F. Toledo, R. S. Ribeiro & C. F. B. Haddad, Journal of Zoology 271 (2007) 170–177
♦ 3Sexual dimorphism in head shape and diet in the cottonmouth snake (Agkistrodon piscivorus), Shawn E. Vincent, Anthony Herrel and Duncan J. Irschick, J. Zool., Lond. (2004) 264, 53–59
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0