salt marsh snake (Nerodia clarkii) Description
English: Mangrove Water Snake Nerodia fasciata compressicauda (synonymized with Nerodia clarkii compressicauda) at Cincinnati Zoo
Date 30 April 2010
Author Ltshears https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ltshears
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MangroveWaterSnake_CincinnatiZoo.jpg
Nerodia clarkii, commonly known as the salt marsh snake, is a species of semiaquatic, nonvenomous, colubrid snake found in the southeastern United States, in the brackish salt marshes along the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Texas, with a population in northern Cuba. Nerodia clarkii compressicauda (Kennicott, 1860) – mangrove salt marsh snake
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Natricinae
Genus: Nerodia
Species: Nerodia clarkii (Baird & Girard, 1853)
Synonyms
Regina clarkii Baird & Girard, 1853
Nerodia compressicauda Kennicott, 1860
Natrix clarkii — Cope, 1892
Tropidonotus clarkii — Boulenger, 1893
Natrix compressicauda tæniata Cope, 1895
Natrix compressicauda — Barbour, 1915
Natrix sipedon clarkii — Schmidt & Davis, 1941
Natrix fasciata clarki — Conant, 1975
Nerodia clarkii — Conant & Collins, 1991
