Photo of a Red-headed whip-snake (Coluber rubriceps)
Photo: Nikita Tiunov, CC BY-NC-SA, via iNaturalist

Red-headed whip-snake

Coluber rubriceps

Venom
Not venomous
Constrictor
Not documented
Type
Colubrid
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Coluber
Continents
Asia
Countries
2
How common
Rare

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About

Red-headed whip-snake (Coluber rubriceps) is a non-venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Israel, Syria. It lives in habitats such as woodland, open woodland, forest edges, shrubland and 8 more. Rare: no confirmed iNaturalist sightings.

Where it lives

Native range

Habitats

Estimated from where this snake is recorded and what kind of snake it is - not a confirmed habitat survey.

Related snakes

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