#1508 · 🦎 reptiles

Green Whip Snake

🇳🇱 Geelgroene Toornslang ·Hierophis viridiflavus

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Marco Bertolini · CC BY 4.0
4. © Norbert VERNEAU · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Eddi Bisulli · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 66482 Althornbach-Zweibrücken, Deutschland:© Michael Wilms · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Uncertain location, 26350 Montchenu, France:© Benoît Segerer · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Oasi La Madonnina Sant'Albano, Italia:© Elio Giacone · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Amnéville, France:© Maëlan ADAM · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Le Vigen, France:© Bilal Trigaud · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The green whip snake or western whip snake ( Hierophis viridiflavus ) is a species of snake in the Colubridae family. There is a larger, often pure black variant found in Italy and Malta referred to there as 'Il Biacco'.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 15,548iNaturalist 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.
15,548 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1789 (237 years ago).