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🦎Smooth snake

Coronella austriaca

The smooth snake is a species of non-venomous snake in the family Colubridae. The species is found in northern and central Europe, but also as far east as northern Iran. The Reptile Database recognizes two subspecies as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies described here.

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≈ 1/930th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2017.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.07 kg
Body length
0.8 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
17 years
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Everything we know about the Smooth snake

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.07 kgmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Body length
0.8 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
17 yearsmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Cathemeral
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
No
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Smooth snake yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. orderSauria
  2. superorderLepidosauria
  3. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  4. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
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In other languages
užovka hladká (cs), Schlingnatter (de), kangaskäärme (fi), Coronella austriaca (fr), Slettsnok (nb), gladde slang (nl) … and 25 more languages
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