Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Colubridae > Hierophis > Hierophis viridiflavus

Hierophis viridiflavus (Green Whip Snake, Western Whip Snake, Dark Green Snake)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The green whip snake or western whip snake (Hierophis viridiflavus) is a species of snake in the Colubridae family.There is a larger, often pure black variant found in Italy and Malta referred to there as 'Il Biacco'.
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Infraspecies

Hierophis viridiflavus carbonarius
Hierophis viridiflavus viridiflavus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.879 lbs (1.306 kg)
Gestation [1]  49 days
Litter Size [1]  5

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mediterranean Basin Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey No

Prey / Diet

Bufotes viridis (Crapaud Vert)[2]
Lacerta bilineata (Western Green Lizard)[3]
Podarcis muralis (Common Wall Lizard)[3]
Podarcis siculus (Italian Wall Lizard)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Coronella girondica (Southern Smooth Snake)1
Echis coloratus (Palestine Saw-scaled Viper)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Capillaria sonsinoi <Unverified Name>[4]
Echinorhynchus cinctus <Unverified Name>[4]
Kalicephalus colubri[4]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Dietary shifts in the Western Whip Snake Coluber viridiflavus LACÉPÈDE, 1789, of the small Mediterranean island of Ustica (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae), ERNESTO FILIPPI & MASSIMO CAPULA & LUCA LUISELLI, HERPETOZOA 16 ( 1/2): 61 - 66 (2003)
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0