#1815 · 🦎 reptiles

Red-banded Snake

🇳🇱 Dinodon rufozonatum ·Lycodon rufozonatus

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © 藜梓柠 · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Kim, Hyun-tae · CC BY 4.0
3. © JIN Pin-Tsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © 张艺言 · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Kim, Hyun-tae · CC BY 4.0
6. 대한민국 대구광역시 달서구:© Kim, Hyun-tae · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. 即墨区, 青岛市, 山东省, CN:© zhaoliangxu · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Hualien, TW-TA, TW:© 小翰 · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 314台灣新竹縣北埔鄉:© Benny Wu · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 540台灣南投縣南投市南投:© Tunyu Chen · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Dinodon rufozonatum is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to East Asia. It is medium-sized, nocturnal, and is considered non-venomous. Two subspecies are recognised, one of which, D. r. walli , is restricted to the Ryukyu Archipelago.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,939iNaturalist 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.
3,939 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Theodore Edward Cantor in 1842 (184 years ago).