#1633 · 🦎 reptiles

Plain-bellied Watersnake

Nerodia erythrogaster

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © tom spinker · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Fernando Mateos-González · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Vicki DeLoach · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © johnwilliams · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Wayne Fidler · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Douglas Mills · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

Nerodia erythrogaster , commonly known as the plain-bellied water snake or plainbelly water snake , is a familiar species of mostly aquatic, nonvenomous, colubrid snake endemic to the United States.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 27,212iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
27,212 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Reinhold Forster in 1771 (255 years ago).