Snake ID Alicante Province Spain (1 Viewer)

DOC REED

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• Jun 10, 2009

• #1

My son and I found this snake in april as a roadkill.In mixed agricultural area with olive/orange groves etc.We'd love to know what it is?Can anyone help?

Cheers

Paul

 

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Farnboro John

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• Jun 11, 2009

• #2

DOC REED said:

My son and I found this snake in april as a roadkill.In mixed agricultural area with olive/orange groves etc.We'd love to know what it is?Can anyone help?

Cheers

Paul

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I can't help with ID but if you hadn't said it was roadkill I'd never have known - well set up!

John

 

Isurus

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• Jun 11, 2009

• #3

Farnboro John said:

if you hadn't said it was roadkill I'd never have known - well set up!

John

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I thought the same thing. whip snake maybe?

 

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Perry Smale

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• Jun 12, 2009

• #4

I would say Montpellier Snake. The only whipsnake in southern Spain is Horseshoe which this is not. How long was it?

 

DOC REED

Well-known member

• Jun 17, 2009

• #5

sorry,lost track of this thread.It was about 3 and 1/2 feet long.Hope helps in some way !

 

LittleChick

Member

• Jun 23, 2009

• #6

juvi Montpellier snake one of Spain's 5 venomous snakes they can grow to 6ft and are rear fanged, great picture there lovely looking snakes

 

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Tony15

Member

• Jan 6, 2016

• #7

It certainly looks like a Montpelier snake. The Montpelier is Spain's biggest, most of the others being less than 1 metre. In November 2015 there was a report in the local newspapers that a 3.5 metre Montpelier had been run over and killed near Los Montesinos (not far from Torremolinos), they are a protected species.

 

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Tony15

Member

• Feb 19, 2016

• #8

Addendum to last post;
Torremolinos should have read Torrevieja. I plead late night and poor geography!

 

Andy Adcock

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• Feb 19, 2016

• #9

Tony15 said:

In November 2015 there was a report in the local newspapers that a 3.5 metre Montpelier had been run over and killed near Los Montesinos

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3.5m!!!
Almost twice the given maximum for the sp?

Andy

 

Torchepot

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• Feb 19, 2016

• #10

That's after it was run over by the steam roller