#1566 · 🦎 reptiles
Eastern Montpellier Snake
🇳🇱 Oostelijke Hagedisslang ·Malpolon insignitus
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Gert Jan Verspui · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Leonid A. Neymark · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Roberto Sindaco · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Gert Jan Verspui · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Michael Steinwandter · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Jan Grathwohl · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Katya · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Katya · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Leonid A. Neymark · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Jan Grathwohl · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The eastern Montpellier snake ( Malpolon insignitus ) is a species of mildly venomous rear-fanged snake.
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.
- 1,330 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1827 (199 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Eastern Montpellier Snake
- Nederlands
- Oostelijke Hagedisslang
- scientific name
- Malpolon insignitus
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Psammophiidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 881
- sightings worldwide
- 1,330
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1827 by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Psammophiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 29450, Wikidata Q3284617, GBIF 5959662, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.