File:Nerodia sipedon insularum (Lake Erie water snake) (South Bass Island, Lake Erie, Ohio, USA) 3.jpg

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English: Nerodia sipedon insularum (Conant & Clay, 1937) - Lake Erie water snake in Ohio, USA.

This is a rare subspecies of northern water snake and one of the rarest reptiles on Earth. The Lake Erie water snake occurs on carbonate islands in western Lake Erie and also in the Catawba and Marblehead Peninsula area on the Ohio mainland. It varies in coloration from plain gray to banded, with a whitish to pale yellowish belly.

The gravel is Silurian-aged carbonate.

Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Reptilia, Squamata, Serpentes, Colubridae

Locality: gravel shoreline of South Bass Island, western Lake Erie, far-northern Ohio, USA


See info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_water_snake and www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/reptiles/lews/le-facts.html and

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