Mississippi Green Watersnake

Nerodia cyclopion

The Mississippi Green Watersnake is a friendly snake that loves to swim! It has beautiful green and brown colors that help it blend in with the water plants.

Hábitat: Wetlands

Aspecto

The Mississippi Green Watersnake is a thick-bodied snake, typically olive-green to dark brown, often with faint or absent patterns. It has strongly keeled scales and round pupils, which visibly distinguish it from venomous lookalikes like the Cottonmouth.

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Mississippi Green Watersnake

Categoría

Reptiles

Rareza

Common

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A single mother Mississippi Green Watersnake can give birth to over 60 live baby snakes!

Despite their name, they are excellent divers, hunting beneath the water's surface!

These snakes have rough, 'keeled' scales that help them grip slippery surfaces, even underwater!

When scared, this snake flattens its head to look big and scary, but it's an act!

Habilidades especiales

Mississippi Green Watersnake can hunt fish and frogs underwater because its muscular body and breath-holding capability make it an expert swimmer.

Mississippi Green Watersnake has live birth, helping its young develop safely inside the mother before entering the watery world.

Mississippi Green Watersnake has strongly keeled scales that provide excellent grip, helping them navigate dense wetland vegetation and slippery banks.

Mississippi Green Watersnake has an olive-green to dark brown color that helps them blend perfectly with murky water and aquatic plants.

Medidas y detalles

Longitud: 76-140 cm
Peso: 0.5-2 kg
Esperanza de vida: 5-10 años
Top Speed: 5 km/h
Velocidad de nado: 10 km/h
Tamaño de la puesta: 10-60
Profundidad máxima: 10 m

Dieta y alimentación

They love to munch on fish and frogs, catching them with quick underwater movements!

Alimentos principales

Fish
Frogs
Tadpoles
Salamanders

Método de búsqueda

Ambush

Conexiones ecológicas

hunts

Mosquitofish

Gambusia affinis

A primary food source in its habitat.

hunts

Southern Leopard Frog

Lithobates sphenocephalus

Frequently preys on these frogs and their tadpoles.

eaten by

American Alligator

Alligator mississippiensis

Young and adult snakes can be prey for alligators.

eaten by

Raccoon

Procyon lotor

Raccoons sometimes prey on watersnakes found near water.

Rasgos

Solitario

Los animales solitarios viven solos durante la mayor parte de su vida y solo interactúan con otros para aparearse o cuidar de sus crías.

Camuflado

El camuflaje describe a los organismos que poseen colores o patrones que les permiten mezclarse con su entorno.

Colorido

Colorido describe a organismos u objetos que exhiben una amplia variedad de colores brillantes y distintivos.

Piscívoro

Los organismos piscívoros son animales que subsisten principalmente de una dieta a base de peces.

Humedal

Este rasgo de hábitat identifica especies que se encuentran en humedales, que son áreas de tierra saturadas de agua, ya sea permanente o estacionalmente, e incluyen marismas, pantanos y ciénagas.