The eastern Montpellier snake (Malpolon insignitus) is a species of mildly venomous rear-fanged snake.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Psammophiidae |
| Genus: | Malpolon |
| Species: | M. insignitus
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| Binomial name | |
| Malpolon insignitus (St.-Hilaire, 1827)
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Geographic range
editM. insignitus ranges from the eastern Adriatic coast in Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania, the southern Balkans in Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Greece, western Asia and Caucasus in Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq and Iran, and along northern Africa in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Algeria.[3]
Description
editIt usually has 19 dorsal scale rows on its mid-body, but males lack a dark 'saddle'. It often has narrow, pale longitudinal stripes.
References
edit- ^ Aram Agasyan, Aziz Avci, Boris Tuniyev, Petros Lymberakis, Claes Andrén, Dan Cogalniceanu, John Wilkinson, Natalia Ananjeva, Nazan Üzüm, Nikolai Orlov, Richard Podloucky, Sako Tuniyev, Uğur Kaya, Milan Vogrin, Sherif Baha El Din. 2009. Malpolon insignitus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T157253A5061050. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/157253/5061050. Downloaded on 23 April 2021.
- ^ The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ "Malpolon insignitus". IUCN Red List. Retrieved 30 July 2022.