#1560 · 🦎 reptiles

Four-lined Snake

🇳🇱 Vierstreepslang ·Elaphe quatuorlineata

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Giuseppe Cillis · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Roberto Sindaco · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. Corfu:© Sandra Eglīte · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. 84088 Siano SA, Italia:© Giovanni Zanfei · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Bulgaria:© munnyto · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Cres, HR-PG, HR:© Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Općina Mali Lošinj, Kroatien:© Harald Komposch · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Marija Marinculića, Nerezine, Primorje-Gorski Kotar, HR:© Ivo Radetić · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Italy:© Roberto Sindaco · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
10. Oštrobradić, Croatia:© Gergely Buday · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Elaphe quatuorlineata (common names: four-lined snake , Bulgarian ratsnake ) is a member of the family Colubridae. The four-lined snake is a non-venomous species and one of the largest in the Colubridae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,697iNaturalist 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.
1,697 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1789 (237 years ago).