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| Species: | N. tessellata |
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| Natrix tessellata (Laurenti, 1768) | |
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The Dice snake (Natrix tessellata) is a European non-venomoussnake belonging to the family ofColubridae, subfamilyNatricinae.
The Dice snake lives a lot in eastern Europe and western Asia, though not as much as the grass snake. Only one species,N.t.heinrothi, is recognized, from the island of Serpilor (Osrov Zminyi) in the Black Sea.[2] Dice snakes are better in water and they have a moreslender body.[2] They are mostly able to see easily in awoodland ordesert, and sometimes in mountainstreams.[2] They usually eat fish, and sometimes they may also eatamphibians. The dice snake is a bitshy.[3] They may grow up to 90 cm long, and has a brown orgrey colouring. Although Dice snakes can be seen in Asia, they do not live a lot onCrete.[3] Dice snakes do not have any venom. They can let out a very bad smell, however, for defense. Another thing they use for defending themselves is playing dead. Dice snakes go into dry holes next to the water, and sleep from October to April. This is calledhibernating.
The Dice snake lives in Europe and Asia:Lebanon,Palestine,Germany,Switzerland,Austria,France,Croatia,Slovenia,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Montenegro,North Macedonia,Serbia,Italy,Czech Republic,Poland,[4]Albania,Romania,Bulgaria,Hungary,Turkey,Greece,Cyprus,Afghanistan,Russia,Ukraine,Armenia,Georgia,Azerbaijan,Kazakhstan,Turkmenistan,Tajikistan,Uzbekistan,Kyrgyzstan,Iraq,Lebanon,Syria,Jordan,Yemen,Egypt,Pakistan, andChina.
