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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: December 31st, 2022.


Taxonomy of the family Colubridae
Bibliography of the genus Coronella
Biodiversity of the family Colubridae








Genus
Coronella

Palearctic Smooth Snakes

Paläarktische Glattnattern

Palæarktiske Glatsnoge

1768 Coronella Laurenti (type species: Coluber levis Lacepede 1789)
1830 Zacholus Wagler (type species: Coronella austriaca Laurenti 1768)
1838 Zamenis Bonaparte (type species: Coluber riccioli Metaxa 1823)
1854 Stremmatognathus Dumeril, Bibron & Dumeril (type species: Coluber catesbeji Sentzen 1796)
Contents: 2 species, none of which are endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Remarks: Previously included Archelaphe bella and Wallophis brachyurus.
Distribution: NW. Africa, Europe, N. Middle East, C. Asia.
Reported from: Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece (incl. Aegean Islands), Hungary, Iran, Italy (incl. Elba, Sicily), Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey (incl. European Turkey), Ukraine (incl. Crimea), United Kingdom (England, Isle of Wight).

Coronella austriaca

Northern Smooth Snake, Common Smooth Snake

Nördliche Glattnatter, Gewöhnliche Glattnatter, Schlingnatter, Haselnatter

Nordlig Glatsnog, Hasselsnog

1768 Coronella austriaca Laurenti
1789 Coluber levis Lacepede [substitute name for Coronella austriaca Laurenti 1768] (Mertens & Wermuth 1960)
1789 Coluber versicolor Razoumowski (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1790 Coluber coronella Bonnaterre [substitute name for Coronella austriaca Laurenti 1768] (Mertens & Wermuth 1960)
1795 Coluber ferrugineus Sparmann (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1798 Coluber oculus cati Suckow (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1801 Coluber alpinus Güldenstedt (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1801 Coluber cupreus Güldenstedt (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1801 Coluber ponticus Güldenstedt (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1801 Coluber thuringicus Bechstein (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1802 Coluber tetragonus Sonnini & Latreille (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1804 Coluber gallicus Hermann (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1804 Coluber laevis Hermann [substitute name for Coluber levis Lacepede 1789] (Mertens & Wermuth 1960)
1814 Coluber caucasius Pallas (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1828 Natrix dumfriesiensis Fleming (Mertens & Wermuth 1960)
1832 Coluber caucasicus Menetries [substitute name for Coluber caucasius Pallas 1814] (Mertens & Wermuth 1960)
1832 Coluber nebulosus Menetries (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1840 Zacholus austriacus fitzingerii Bonaparte
Coronella austriaca fitzingeri Boscá 1916
1853 Zacholus meridionalis Fitzinger [not Coluber meridionalis Daudin 1803] (Mertens & Wermuth 1960)
1862 Simotes semicinctus Peters (Tillack, Kucharzewski, Bauer & Wallach 2008)
Oligodon semicinctus Wallach & Bauer 1996
1868 Coluber vernalis Gistel [not Coluber vernalis Harlan 1827] (Mertens & Wermuth 1960)
1872 Coronella austriaca marginata Fatio (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1872 Coronella austriaca pallida Fatio (Mertens & Wermuth 1960)
1875 Coronella austriaca italica Schreiber [substitute name for Zacholus austriacus fitzingeri Bonaparte 1840] (Mertens & Wermuth 1960)
1885 Coronella laevis leopardina Müller (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1897 Coronella austriaca concolor Werner (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1897 Coronella austriaca fasciata Dürigen (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1897 Coronella austriaca immaculata Dürigen [substitute name for Coluber caucasius Pallas 1814] (Mertens & Wermuth 1960)
1897 Coronella austriaca lateralis Werner (Mertens & Wermuth 1960)
1897 Coronella austriaca quadritaeniata Werner (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1897 Coronella austriaca sparsa Dürigen (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1897 Coronella austriaca taeniata Dürigen (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1911 Coronella austriaca scalaris Sternfeld (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1912 Coronella austriaca veithi Schreiber (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1995 Coronella austriaca acutirostris Malkmus

Other common names:
fitzingeri: Italian Smooth Snake, South Italian Smooth Snake
Remarks: Not recorded in Denmark since 1914 (Bringsøe & Graff (eds.) 1995) in spite of targeted searches.
Extinct in: Denmark.
Distribution: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece (incl. Aegean Islands), Hungary, Iran, Italy (incl. Elba, Sicily), Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey (incl. European Turkey), Ukraine (incl. Crimea), United Kingdom (England, Isle of Wight).


Coronella austriaca
© Henrik Bringsøe

Coronella girondica

Southern Smooth Snake, Bordeaux Snake, Gironde Smooth Snake, Spanish Smooth Snake

Girondische Glattnatter

Sydlig Glatsnog, Girondisk Glatsnog

1803 Coluber girondicus Daudin
Coronella girondica Mertens & Müller 1940
1803 Coluber meridionalis Daudin (Mertens & Wermuth 1960)
1823 Coluber riccioli Metaxa (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1826 Coluber strigatus Risso (status uncertain; Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1829 Coluber rubens Gachet (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1854 Coronella girundica Duméril & Bibron [substitute name for Coluber girondicus Daudin 1803] (Mertens & Wermuth 1960)
1869 Coronella laevis hispanica Boettger (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
1881 Rhinechis amaliae Boettger (Böhme (ed.) 1993)
Coronella amaliae Boulenger 1889
Coronella girondica amaliae Dusej in Böhme (ed.) 1993

Remarks: Presence in Sicily is uncertain. Several authors have not included the island in the range of girondica (e.g., Venchi & Sindaco 2007; Sindaco, Doria, Razzetti & Bernini [eds.] 2006). Nevertheless, several localities have been mentioned in the literature of which at least one has a voucher with exact locality data (Dusej in Böhme (ed.) 1993). It has been suggested that the species may not be native to Sicily and that existing records thus are based on introductions (Dusej, ibid.).
Distribution: Algeria, France, Gibraltar, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia.


Coronella girondica
© Rune Midtgaard