Colubridae Psammophiinae Natrix tessellata Malpolon monspessulanus
Malpolon insignitus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827)
Eastern Montpellier Snake

M. insignitus (© Jan Van Der Voort)

Adult, Protoklisi, Trace, Greece, April 2001
(Photo by Jan Van Der Voort)

M. insignitus (© Jan Van Der Voort)

Adult, Protoklisi, Trace, Greece, April 2001
(Photo by Jan Van Der Voort)

M. insignitus (© Matthew Wilson)

Adult, Livathos, Kefallonia, Greece, May 2004
(Photo by Matthew Wilson)

M. insignitus (© Jan Van Der Voort)

Adult, Bar, Montenegro, June 2003
(Photo by Jan Van Der Voort)

M. insignitus (© Jan Van Der Voort)

Young, Pantokrator, Corfu, Greece, September 1997
(Photo by Jan Van Der Voort)

M. insignitus (© Paolo Mazzei)

Young, Neum, Bosnia, September 1984
(Photo by Paolo Mazzei)

M. insignitus (© Matthew Wilson)

Adult, Livathos, Kefallonia, Greece, May 2004
(Photo by Matthew Wilson)


Distribution:
An isolated population in Trentino and Lampedusa island, Italy; east Adriatic coast, south Balkan peninsula, Macedonia and southern Bulgaria; Euboea, Corfu, Cephalonia, Zakynthos, Thasos, Samothraki, Skopelos and some other Greek island close to Turkey

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