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Nerodia (water snake)
Taxonomy
Nerodia was named by Baird and Girard (1853). It is extant.
It was assigned to Colubridae by Behler and King (1979) and Carroll (1988); to Natricinae by Holman (1985), Parmley and Holman (1995) and Parmley and Hunter (2010); and to Natricidae by Mead and Steadman (2017).
It was assigned to Colubridae by Behler and King (1979) and Carroll (1988); to Natricinae by Holman (1985), Parmley and Holman (1995) and Parmley and Hunter (2010); and to Natricidae by Mead and Steadman (2017).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1853 | Nerodia Baird and Girard |
1979 | Nerodia Behler and King |
1985 | Nerodia Holman |
1988 | Nerodia Carroll |
1995 | Nerodia Parmley and Holman p. 84 |
2010 | Nerodia Parmley and Hunter p. 536 |
2017 | Nerodia Mead and Steadman p. 436 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Nerodia Baird and Girard 1853 [water snake]
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Nerodia erythrogaster Clark 1903 [plain-bellied water snake]
Nerodia fasciata Linnaeus 1766 [banded water snake]
Nerodia floridana Goff 1936 [Florida green watersnake]
†Nerodia hibbardi Holman 1962
†Nerodia hillmani Wilson 1968
Nerodia rhombifer Hallowell 1852 [diamondback water snake]
Nerodia sipedon Linnaeus 1758 [northern water snake]
Nerodia sipedon fasciata Linnaeus 1766
Nerodia taxispilota Holbrook 1842 [brown water snake]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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References: Behler and King 1979, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 |
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Barstovian to the top of the Holocene or 16.30000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 12.5 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 12.5 Ma
Collections (61 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Barstovian | USA (Nebraska) | Nerodia indet. (18208) Nerodia sp. (18141 27481) | |
Clarendonian | USA (Nebraska) | Nerodia sp. (188779) | |
Clarendonian | USA (Kansas) | Natrix hillmani (18450) | |
Late/Upper Clarendonian | USA (Florida) | Natrix sp. (18554) | |
Late/Upper Clarendonian | USA (Nebraska) | Nerodia sp., Nerodia hillmani (18327) | |
Hemphillian | USA (Nebraska) | Nerodia sp. (18225) | |
Late/Upper Hemphillian | USA (Nebraska) | Nerodia sp. (18247) | |
Late/Upper Hemphillian - Blancan | USA (Indiana) | Nerodia sp., Nerodia erythrogaster (18320) | |
Late/Upper Hemphillian - Blancan | USA (Tennessee) | Nerodia sp. (26574) | |
Blancan | USA (Nebraska) | Natrix sp. (19963) Nerodia rhombifera, Nerodia sp., Nerodia rhombifer (27572) Nerodia sipedon (19960) Nerodia sp. (19954) | |
Blancan | USA (Kansas) | Natrix sp. (19922 19931 19936 19940) | |
Blancan | USA (Florida) | Nerodia sp. (19753) Nerodia taxispilota (19764) | |
Blancan | USA (Arizona) | Natrix sp. (19661) | |
Gelasian | USA (Florida) | Nerodia erythrogaster, Nerodia floridana (20384) | |
Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Nerodia sp. (227368) | |
Pleistocene | USA (West Virginia) | Nerodia sipedon (123875 124319 125951) | |
Irvingtonian | USA (Oklahoma) | Natrix sp. (20151 20309) Nerodia sp. (20157) | |
Irvingtonian | USA (Maryland) | Natrix sipedon (20302) | |
Irvingtonian | USA (South Dakota) | Natrix sipedon, Natrix sp. (20389) | |
Irvingtonian | USA (Texas) | Nerodia erythrogaster (20530) Nerodia fasciata (20337) | |
Irvingtonian | USA (Pennsylvania) | Nerodia sipedon (20354) | |
Irvingtonian | USA (Florida) | Nerodia sp., Nerodia fasciata (20402) | |
Irvingtonian | USA (Kansas) | Natrix sipedon (20332 20390 20516) Natrix sp. (20165 20295 20301 20391) Nerodia sipedon (20293 20422 20423) | |
Irvingtonian - Rancholabrean | USA (Kansas) | Natrix sipedon (20492) | |
Rancholabrean | USA (Florida) | Nerodia sp. (20440) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Natrix sipedon (20638 154922) Nerodia taxispilota (154910) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | Bahamas (Great Abaco Island) | Nerodia sp. (144663) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial) | USA (Missouri) | Natrix sipedon (75995) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Virginia) | Nerodia sipedon (103358) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Florida) | Nerodia floridana (20629) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Kansas) | Natrix sp. (20605) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Georgia) | Nerodia fasciata (20604) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Georgia) | Natrix sipedon (13066) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Alabama) | Nerodia sipeodon (84181) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene (glacial) | USA (Florida) | Natrix sipedon (154921) | |
Holocene | USA (Florida) | Nerodia sp. (227371) |