Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Colubridae > Nerodia > Nerodia fasciataNerodia fasciata (Southern Water Snake)Synonyms: Coluber fasciatus (heterotypic); Natrix fasciata confluens; Natrix fasciata pictiventris; Natrix sipedon engelsi; Natrix sipedon fasciata; Nerodia sipedon fasciata; Tropidonotus bisectus 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. |
| 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 |
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Big Cypress National Preserve |
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732120 |
Florida, United States |
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Cape Lookout National Seashore |
II |
18379 |
North Carolina, United States |
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Carolinian-South Atlantic Biosphere Reserve |
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310228 |
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, United States |
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Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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40530 |
United States |
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Cumberland Island National Seashore |
II |
20629 |
Georgia, United States |
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Gulf Island National Seashore |
II |
67487 |
Florida, Mississippi, United States |
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Jean Lafitte National Hist. Park & Preserve National Historical Park |
II |
17686 |
Louisiana, United States |
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Little River National Wildlife Refuge |
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Oklahoma, United States |
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Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
38256 |
Florida, United States |
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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, 5359 ♦ 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 |
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
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