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This list of snakes of Italy includes all snakes in the state of Italy. Non-venomous. Natrix natrix; Natrix tessellata; Natrix maura; Hierophis viridiflavus;
Display of Italian reptiles at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria. The Italian reptile fauna totals 58 species (including introduced and naturalised species). They are listed here in three systematic groups (Sauria, Serpentes, and Testudines) in alphabetical order by scientific name.
Respective approximate European ranges of Aesculapian snake (green) and Italian Aesculapian snake (blue). Z. lineatus is endemic to southern Italy and Sicily.The northern limit of its geographical range is the Province of Caserta in the west and the Province of Foggia in the east.
About 69 species of reptiles have been recorded in Italy. [18] Notable reptiles are the Dice snake, the Green whip snake, the Aesculapian snake, the Smooth snake, the Montpellier snake, the European cat snake, the Walser viper, the Meadow viper, the Horned viper, the Common European adder, the Asp viper, the Hermann's tortoise, the European ...
A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Britain and Europe. London: Collins. 272 pp. + Plates 1-40. ISBN 0-00-219318-3. (Elaphe longissima, pp. 199–200 + Plate 36 + Map 112 on p. 266). Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ.
This is a list of reptiles of Europe. It includes all reptiles currently found in Europe . It does not include species found only in captivity or extinct in Europe , except where there is some doubt about this, nor (with few exceptions) does it currently include species introduced in recent decades.
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In the northeastern part of its range, in Sicily and southern Italy, most individuals are blackish in colour. There is a larger, up to two metres (6.5 ft) long, often pure black variant – Coluber viridiflavus carbonarius (Bonaparte, 1833) – found in Italy and Malta. [4] referred to there as 'Il Biacco'. In Lorraine, France