Short-snouted Grass Snake
Psammophis sibilansDescription 1
A medium to large, slender snake. Largest Egyptian specimen has a total length of 1,445 mm. Tail long, tail / total length = 0.28-0.30; nostril in a divided nasal; loreal elongate, same length as nasals; 8 supralabials, fourth and fifth enter the eye, 10-12 infralabials; 158-172 ventrals, 91-117 paired subcaudals, dorsals smooth, 17 scale rows around mid-body, anal divided. Dorsum with 3 broad brown-gray longitudinal stripes, edged with black, interspersed with narrower yellowish lines; a thin vertebral line; several transverse dark bars on the posterior of the head and nape; preocular, postoculars and supralabials yellowish. Venter yellow, often with two lateral, narrow, dark lines. Young more contrasting than adults.
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- (c) Bibliotheca Alexandrina, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/15643797
