#1524 · 🦎 reptiles
Western Montpellier Snake
🇳🇱 Hagedisslang ·Malpolon monspessulanus
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what is it?
Malpolon monspessulanus , commonly known as the Montpellier snake , is a species of mildly venomous rear-fanged colubrids.
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.
- 7,686 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jean-Herman Faber in 1912 (114 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Western Montpellier Snake
- Nederlands
- Hagedisslang
- scientific name
- Malpolon monspessulanus
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Psammophiidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 7,044
- sightings worldwide
- 7,686
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1912 by Jean-Herman Faber
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Psammophiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 29449, Wikidata Q1324701, GBIF 8796529, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.