A young Mississippi Green Water Snake (Nerodia cyclopion) is attempting to hide under some fall leaves in the area near its den. They are also known as: Mississippi Green Watersnake, Green Water Snake, Green Watersnake, Water Snake, Watersnake
A young Mississippi Green Water Snake (Nerodia cyclopion) is crawling out from under some fall leaves in the area near its den. They are also known as: Mississippi Green Watersnake, Green Water Snake, Green Watersnake, Water Snake, or Watersnake.
The snake is a juvenile plain-bellied water snake or plainbelly water snake (Nerodia erythrogaster) in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois. The snake is probably an integrate (half breed) between Nerodia erythrogaster flavigaster & Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta.
