''Malpolon'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
snake
Snakes are elongated, Limbless vertebrate, limbless, carnivore, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other Squamata, squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping Scale (zoology), scales. Ma ...
s, containing the following species:
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Malpolon insignitus
The eastern Montpellier snake (''Malpolon insignitus'') is a species of mildly venomous rear-fanged snake.
Geographic range
''M. insignitus'' ranges from the eastern Adriatic coast in Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro ...
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(Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827) – eastern Montpellier snake
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Malpolon moilensis
The false cobra (''Malpolon moilensis''), or hooded malpolon, is an opisthoglyphous snake found in parts of Africa and the Middle East. The name "false cobra" comes from the fact that while it is not a cobra, it imitates a cobra's stance by sp ...
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(Reuss, 1834) – False cobra
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Malpolon monspessulanus
''Malpolon monspessulanus'', commonly known as the Montpellier snake, is a species of mildly venomous Opisthoglyphous, rear-fanged snake.
Geographic range
It is very common in Spain, Portugal and Northwest Africa, being also present in the south ...
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(Hermann, 1804) – Montpellier snake
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Psammophiidae
Snakes of Africa
Reptiles of Europe
Snake genera
Taxa named by Leopold Fitzinger
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