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Coronella austriaca (Smooth Snake)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Coronella austriaca fitzingeri is a subspecies of the snake (commonly known as a smooth snake) (Coronella austriaca). It lives in Southern Italy and Sicily.
View Wikipedia Record: Coronella austriaca

Infraspecies

Coronella austriaca acutirostris
Coronella austriaca austriaca

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  196 grams
Birth Weight [2]  2.87 grams
Female Maturity [2]  4 years
Male Maturity [1]  3 years
Litter Size [2]  5
Maximum Longevity [1]  1 year

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caucasus Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Turkey No
Irano-Anatolian Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Turkmenistan No
Mediterranean Basin Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey No

Prey / Diet

Anguis fragilis (Slow Worm)[2]
Apodemus sylvaticus (Old World wood and field mouse)[2]
Zootoca vivipara louislantzi (Viviparous Lizard)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Alaria alata[3]
Ascarops strongylina[3]
Mesocestoides lineatus[3]
Physocephalus sexalatus[3]
Rhabdias fuscovenosa[3]

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
♦ 2Reproductive output, costs of reproduction, and ecology of the smooth snake, Coronella austriaca, in the eastern Italian Alps, L. Luiselli, M. Capula, R. Shine, Oecologia (1996) 106:100-110
♦ 3Gibson, 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