Queensnake vs. Common Watersnake

Both are brown watersnakes of Indiana streams. A Queensnake is slender and plain olive-brown above, with a yellow stripe low along each side (on scale rows 1 and 2) and a yellow belly with four dark stripes running along it. A Common Watersnake is heavier, banded near the head and blotched down the body, with half-moons on the belly. Queensnakes live under flat stones in rocky streams with crayfish.

Photographs via iNaturalist under Creative Commons licences; the photographers are credited on the sheet.

More comparisons

• Graham's Crawfish Snake vs. Queensnake
• Glossy Swampsnake vs. Queensnake
• Eastern Copperhead vs. Common Watersnake
• Common Watersnake vs. Diamondback Watersnake
• Common Watersnake vs. Plain-bellied Watersnake
• Kirtland's Snake vs. Common Watersnake
• Northern Cottonmouth vs. Common Watersnake
• Mississippi Green Watersnake vs. Common Watersnake
• Graham's Crawfish Snake vs. Common Watersnake
• Banded Watersnake vs. Common Watersnake
• Broad-banded Copperhead vs. Common Watersnake
• Glossy Swampsnake vs. Common Watersnake
• Brown Watersnake vs. Common Watersnake

Wildsight identifies the reptiles and amphibians of the United States. Every comparison