#1517 · 🦎 reptiles

Tessellated Water Snake

🇳🇱 Dobbelsteenslang ·Natrix tessellata

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Kevin Chen · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Martin A. Prinz · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © carnifex · CC BY 4.0
6. © Histria2006 · CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Мышкинский р-н, Ярославская обл., Россия:© Игорь Шляпкин · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Puntigam, Graz, Österreich:© Johannes Schuster · CC BY 4.0
9. Ленинский р-н, Махачкала, Респ. Дагестан, Россия:© no rights reserved · CC0
10. Dubravice, Skradin, Chorvatsko:© Pavel Kacl · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The dice snake ( Natrix tessellata ) is a European nonvenomous snake belonging to the family Colubridae, subfamily Natricinae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 11,105iNaturalist 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.
11,105 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti in 1768 (258 years ago).