Nerodia harteri
(Trapido, 1941)
ner-OH-dee-uh — har-TER-ai
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
The English name was changed from "Brazos River Watersnake" to align it with the Concho Watersnake.
Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Texas
First instance(s) of published English names:
Harter's Water Snake (Natrix harteri: Schmidt, Karl Peterson and D. D. Davis. 1941. Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. C.P. Putnam and Sons, New York. 365pp.); Brazos Water Snake (Natrix harteri: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
The Reptile Database
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1938
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Clay, William M. A synopsis of the North American water snakes of the genus Natrix. Copeia 1938(4):173-182
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1941
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Trapido, Harold. A new species of Natrix from Texas. American Midland Naturalist 25(3):673-680
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1972
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Baker, Robert J., George A. Mengden, and James J. Bull. Karyotypic studies of thirty-eight species of North American snakes . Copeia 1972(2):257-265
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1983
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Mecham, John S. Nerodia harteri. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (330):1-2
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1991
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Collins, Joseph T. Viewpoint: A new taxonomic arrangement for some North American amphibins and reptiles Herpetological Review 22(2):42-43
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1992
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Densmore, Llewellyn D., III, Francis L. Rose, and Stephanie J. Kain. Mitochondrial DNA evolution and speciation in water snakes (genus Nerodia) with special reference to Nerodia harteri. Herpetologica 48(1):60-68
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2014
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Crother, Brian I. The bold taxonomic hypotheses of Collins (1991): 23 years later. Herpetological Review 45(2):268-272
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