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Nerodia floridana (Florida Green Water Snake)

Synonyms: Natrix cyclopion floridana

Wikipedia Abstract

Florida green watersnake (Nerodia floridana) is a harmless North American species of water snake. N. floridana is the largest and most dominant watersnake in North America. Fully grown it will typically reach 76–140 cm (30–55 in), with the record-sized specimen having measured 188 cm (74 in). Its coloration is solid greenish-brownish with whitish belly in adults. Juveniles have about 50 dark bars down their dorsum and on their sides, which fade gradually with age.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5.692 lbs (2.582 kg)

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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
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