Snakes
Lake Erie Water Snake
Nerodia sipedon insularum - 61-106.7 cm; record 140.5 cm
- a sub-species of the more wide-spread Northern Water Snake
- range from uniformly grey with no markings to dark grey-brown with some banding
- only found at western end of Lake Erie and on Pelee and surrounding islands
- belly whitish yellow to grey
- scales keeled; anal scale divided
- gives birth to live young
- ENDANGERED
