Southern Smooth Snake
Coronella girondica
Summary 8
Coronella girondica is a harmless colubrid species found in southern Europe and northern Africa. No subspecies are currently recognized.
Range description 9
In Europe, this species ranges from Portugal and Spain, through southern France (avoiding parts of the southwest), Monaco and parts of western and central Italy (it is considered to be extinct in northeastern Italy, and is not present in Calabria or Sicily; there is in isolated record in Apulia [Gargano]). In North Africa it ranges from the Rif and Atlas Mountains of Morocco, through the northern parts of Algeria to extreme northwestern Tunisia. It can be found from the lowlands close to sea level up to 2,900m asl (High Atlas, Morocco); it is not present in the Pyrenees and the Alps (with the exception of some dry valleys in northwestern Italy).
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- (c) Óscar Méndez, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/34876687@N03/6919819692
- (c) Esv - Eduard Solà Vázquez, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Coronella_girondica_Geres.JPG
- (c) José María Escolano, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2538/4023327104_c5ebc51884.jpg
- (c) José María Escolano, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2643/3948406735_b969124273.jpg
- (c) José María Escolano, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2464/3948402303_be3b13096b.jpg
- (c) José María Escolano, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3438/3948400995_75738a03e0.jpg
- (c) José María Escolano, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2646/3948404461_2564750c00.jpg
- (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronella_girondica
- (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/18817196
