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Nerodia sipedon (Northern Water Snake)

Synonyms: Coluber sipedon; Natric sipedon; Natrix sipedon; Natrix sipedon williamengelsi; Nerodia agassizii

Wikipedia Abstract

The northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon) is a species of large, nonvenomous, common snake in the Colubridae family that is native to North America.
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Infraspecies

Nerodia sipedon insularum (Lake Erie watersnake)
Nerodia sipedon pleuralis (Midland northern watersnake)
Nerodia sipedon sipedon (Northern watersnake)
Nerodia sipedon williamengelsi (Carolina watersnake)

Attributes

Hibernates [1]  Yes
Litter Size [2]  30
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  10 years
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams
Adult Weight [2]  2.879 lbs (1.306 kg)
Diet [1]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [3]  2 years
Male Maturity [3]  2 years

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Parasitized by 
Centrorhynchus conspectus[8]
Distomum variabile <Unverified Name>[8]
Ophidascaris ashii <Unverified Name>[8]
Rhabdias fuscovenosa[8]
Zeugorchis longicirrus <Unverified Name>[8]

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Resources of a Snake Community in Prairie-Woodland Habitat of Northeastern Kansas, Henry S. Fitch, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, Wildlife Research Report 13: 83-98 (1982)
♦ 5Study of Northern Virginia Ecology
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7Sorex palustris, John T. Beneski, Jr. and Derek W. Stinson, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 296, pp. 1-6 (1987)
♦ 8Gibson, 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