#1553 · 🦎 reptiles
Steppe Ratsnake
🇳🇱 Steppeslang ·Elaphe dione
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what is it?
Elaphe dione , commonly known as the Steppes ratsnake , is a species of snake of the family Colubridae.
base stats
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.
- 2,364 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1773 (253 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Steppe Ratsnake
- Nederlands
- Steppeslang
- scientific name
- Elaphe dione
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Colubridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 381
- sightings worldwide
- 2,364
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1773 by Peter Simon Pallas
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 30282, Wikidata Q533192, GBIF 2458400, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.