#1634 · 🦎 reptiles

Banded Watersnake

🇳🇱 Gebandeerde waterslang ·Nerodia fasciata

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

what is it?

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.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 25,835iNaturalist 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.
25,835 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).