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[[File:Atlantic_salt_marsh_snake.jpg|alt=Atlantic salt marsh snake (Nerodia clarkii taeniata)|thumb|320px|'''[[Atlantic salt marsh snake]]'''<br/> ''Nerodia clarkii taeniata''<br/>Status: [[:Category:Endangered Species|Threatened]]]]
[[File:Atlantic_salt_marsh_snake.jpg|alt=Atlantic salt marsh snake (Nerodia clarkii taeniata)|thumb|320px|'''[[Atlantic salt marsh snake]]'''<br/> ''Nerodia clarkii taeniata''<br/>Status: [[:Category:Endangered Species|Threatened]]]]
<p><i><b>Nerodia clarkii taeniata</b></i>, commonly known as the <b>Atlantic salt marsh snake</b>, is a species of semiaquatic, nonvenomous, colubrid snake found only in the Atlantic coast salt marshes of Volusia and Brevard County, Florida.</p>
<p><i><b>Nerodia clarkii taeniata</b></i>, commonly known as the <b>Atlantic salt marsh snake</b>, is a species of semiaquatic, nonvenomous, colubrid snake found only in the Atlantic coast salt marshes of Volusia and Brevard County, Florida. It is currently listed as a Threatened Species by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.</p>
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<h2><span id="Description">Description</span></h2>
<h2><span id="Description">Description</span></h2>
<p>The Atlantic Salt Marsh Snake is a slender, heavily keeled water snake with a pattern of stripes that are variously broken into blotches. The dorsal ground color is pale olive, patterned with a pair of dark brown stripes running down the back and enclosing a pale mid-dorsal stripe. These dark stripes usually become fragmented posteriorly into a series of elongated blotches. There is also a row of dark blotches along the lower side of the body, which may merge to form stripes in the neck region.</p>
<p>The Atlantic Salt Marsh Snake is a slender, heavily keeled water snake with a pattern of stripes that are variously broken into blotches. The dorsal ground color is pale olive, patterned with a pair of dark brown stripes running down the back and enclosing a pale mid-dorsal stripe. These dark stripes usually become fragmented posteriorly into a series of elongated blotches. There is also a row of dark blotches along the lower side of the body, which may merge to form stripes in the neck region.</p>
 
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<p>The <b>Atlantic salt marsh snake</b> (<i>N. c. taeniata</i>), is restricted to a small stretch of coastline in Volusia and Indian River Counties, Florida.  This race has a color pattern of four dark stripes on the neck which are replaced by a series of dark blotches or bands on the posterior portion of the snake's body.  It is currently listed as a Threatened Species by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.</p>
 
<h2><span id="Taxonomy">Taxonomy</span></h2>
 
 
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<h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><ul><li>Herps of Texas: <i>Nerodia clarkii</i></li><li>Texas Parks &amp; Wildlife: Gulf Salt Marsh Snake</li></ul>
 
<h2><span id="Further_reading">Further reading</span></h2>
<ul><li>Baird SF, Girard CF (1853). <i>Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part I.—Serpents.</i> Washington, District of Columbia: Smithsonian Institution. xvi + 172 pp. (<i>Regina clarkii</i>, new species, p. 48).</li><li>Boulenger GA (1893). <i>Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families ... Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part.</i> London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (<i>Tropidonotus clarkii</i>, p. 238).</li><li>Conant, Roger; Bridges, William (1939). <i>What Snake Is That?: A Field Guide to the Snakes of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains</i>. (With 108 drawings by Edmond Malnate). New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Company. Frontispiece map + viii + 163 pp. + Plates A-c, 1-32. (<i>Natrix sipedon clarkii</i>, pp. 105–106 + Plate 20, Figure 57).</li><li>Cope ED (1895). "On some new North American Snakes". <i>American Naturalist</i> <b>29</b>: 676-680. (<i>Natrix compressicauda tæniata</i>, new subspecies, pp. 676–677).</li><li>Kennicott R (1860). "Descriptions of New Species of North American Serpents in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington". <i>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia</i> <b>12</b>: 328-338. (<i>Nerodia compressicauda</i>, new species, pp. 335–336).</li><li>Powell R, Conant R, Collins JT (2016). <i>Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Fourth Edition</i>. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. xiv + 494 pp., 47 Plates, 207 Figures.  <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1067248974">ISBN 978-0-544-12997-9. (<i>Nerodia clarkii</i>, pp. 414–415 + Plate 40).</li></ul>
 
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Atlantic salt marsh snake (Nerodia clarkii taeniata)
Atlantic salt marsh snake
Nerodia clarkii taeniata
Status: Threatened

Nerodia clarkii taeniata, commonly known as the Atlantic salt marsh snake, is a species of semiaquatic, nonvenomous, colubrid snake found only in the Atlantic coast salt marshes of Volusia and Brevard County, Florida. It is currently listed as a Threatened Species by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Description

The Atlantic Salt Marsh Snake is a slender, heavily keeled water snake with a pattern of stripes that are variously broken into blotches. The dorsal ground color is pale olive, patterned with a pair of dark brown stripes running down the back and enclosing a pale mid-dorsal stripe. These dark stripes usually become fragmented posteriorly into a series of elongated blotches. There is also a row of dark blotches along the lower side of the body, which may merge to form stripes in the neck region.

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