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Eastern Montpellier Snake

Malpolon insignitus

Potentially dangerous

Classification

The eastern Montpellier snake (Malpolon insignitus) is a species of mildly venomous rear-fanged snake. Geographic range M. insignitus ranges from the eastern Adriatic coast in Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania, the southern Balkans in Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Greece, western Asia and Caucasus in Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq and Iran, and along northern Africa in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Algeria.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Italy · 5