#1521 · 🦎 reptiles

Viperine Snake

🇳🇱 Adderringslang ·Natrix maura

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

Natrix maura is a natricine water snake of the genus Natrix . Its common name is viperine water snake or viperine snake . Despite its common names, it is not a member of the subfamily Viperinae. This nonvenomous, semiaquatic, fish-eating snake was given its common names due to behavioural and aesthetic similarities with sympatric adder species.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 9,923iNaturalist 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.
9,923 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).