Florida Water Snake Belly

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Florida water snake belly. These water snakes can grow up to 5 feet in length. Over time they have adopted many scientific names such as natrix sipedon fasciata tropidonotous fasciatus and coluber fasciatus. Florida green water snakes are stout snakes that can grow 3 4 5 feet in length. They can be tan greenish or orangish with no distinctive markings except some speckling down the back.

Florida snakes visual identification. Water snakes are not poisonous. They don t have venom. They tend to give birth like a mammal.

State of florida non venomous. Harmless watersnake or venomous water moccasin. Unlike many other snakes the watersnakes don t lay eggs. The belly is yellow with worm like black or red markings and a dark line runs diagonally through the eye.

There are many harmless watersnakes genus nerodia that are frequently confused with venomous water moccasins a k a. All the species of water snakes are non venomous. Florida green water snake nerodia floridana plainbelly water snake. Cottonmouths agkistrodon piscivorus sadly harmless snakes are often killed out of fear for the safety of family and pets.

Nerodia fasciata linnaeus 1766 the following will separate the two southern water snakes found in florida if you are unable to distinguish between them based on the characteristics in the key below you probably can do so using the geographic location alone. Crossbands are bands of color extending across the back and down the sides but do not cross the belly. Red belly snakes florida brown snake. An american alligator and.

These snakes are almost always found near a permanent water source such as. This list of snakes of florida includes all snakes in the u s. The snakes are thick and dark colored with a heavy body with the neck smaller than the body and with the tail tip long and thin. Water snakes brown watersnake.

Plain bellied water snakes are found in every southeastern state of the u s from florida to southeastern virginia on the east coast and to the borders of eastern north carolina and western tennessee. The belly frequently is a lighter contrasting color. Florida snake identification key southern water snake. The snakes are almost always found near a permanent water source.

Plain bellied water snakes range through much of the southeastern united states from michigan to delaware in the north and texas to northern florida in the south but they are absent from the florida peninsula and the higher elevations of the appalachian mountains.