#1795 · 🦎 reptiles

Common Sharp-tailed Snake

🇳🇱 Doornstaartslang ·Contia tenuis

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Tony Iwane · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Bill Bouton · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Grant Wang · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Robin Gwen Agarwal · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Capital, CA-BC, CA:© Samuelle Simard-Provençal · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 38.680198283975294, -121.20124942138744:© Sara Keeler · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Wasco County, US-OR, US:© herper47 · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. River Rd, Cloverdale, CA, US:© Archer Barrett · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Capital, CA-BC, CA:© no rights reserved · CC0
10. Capital, CA-BC, CA:© Jeremy Gatten · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The sharp-tailed snake or sharptail snake ( Contia tenuis ) is a small colubrid snake that lives in the Western United States and some parts of British Columbia.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,438iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
4,438 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Spencer Fullerton Baird in 1852 (174 years ago).