hi, i suppose its a mud snake http://www.chicagoherp.org/herps/snake/Fabacura.htm What color is its belly?
DCherpguy
Oct 6, 2003 4:53 PM
Rating: 5/5
looks to be a northern water snake to me.
danielaphe
Oct 6, 2003 9:16 PM
Rating: 5/5
Really? i thought it was a mud snake since its body was very dark... this is a northern water snake http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/snake.pics/N_sipedon.gif
Horridus
Oct 7, 2003 11:12 AM
This is a Diamondback Water Snake
(Nerodia rhombifer) Not a Mud Snake because of keeled scales and visible pattern.
ont_herper
Oct 7, 2003 11:17 AM
That is a northern watersnake, there are no other watersnakes in ontario, except lake erie which is a subspecies, and only found in a few locations.
snakeman54
Jan 11, 2004 10:31 AM
Northern water snake (nerodia sipeodon or something like that) i catch them nearm my house all the time
CamHanna
Jan 23, 2004 11:00 PM
Rating: 5/5
Am I the only one thinking insularun (lake erie water). I see a hint of a crossband that kind of bothers me but it's not unheard of. I think Weatley is right by Pelee if it is then they are maybe in the area, though they're more often assosiated with the island. insularum and sipedon hybridize readily and mainland snakes are seldom of certain parentage.
PS
There are no muds or rombifers in Ontario.
Michael66
Jun 16, 2007 11:23 PM
Rating: 5/5
looks like a hybird bandedXdimondback water snake. the head and eyes say dimondback but coloration and patterns say banded.
