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Natrix tessellata tessellata
(LAURENTI, 1768)
Photo
Distribution in Armenia
Altitudes: Araks basin: 375-2000
m above sea level. Kura basin: 375-1600 m. a.s.l.
Regions: Araks basin: Shirak,
Armavir, Aragatsotn,Yerevan, Kotayk, Gegharkunik, Ararat, Vayots Dzor,
Syunik; Kura basin:Tavoush, Lory.
Habitats: Rivers, lakes, bunches, rural habitats, rocjlands
covered by phryganoid or shibliak vegetation, stony sites within semideserts.
Areal type: Mediterranean
- Global distribution:
- Europe: Germany, S Switzerland,
E Austria, France, Belgique, Croatia (including some adriatic islands),
Slovenia, Bosnia and Hercegowina, Monte Negro, Macedonia, Serbia, Italy,
Czech Republic, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary,
Turkey, Greece (incl. Crete, Lesbos, Samos), S-W-Russia,Ukraine.
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Asia: EW Russia,
Afghanstan, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan,
Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Israel,Yemen,
N Pakistan, NW China (Xinjiang).
- Africa: NE Egypt.
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Food: small mammals, fish, amphibians
Enemies:birds, man.
Parasites:
Known trend: not abjective data is
available (presumably common)
References:
- photo:
http://www.itc.it/mtsn/softw/rettili/tessel.html
info: http://www.itc.it/mtsn/softw/rettili/tessel.html
Aghasyan A.L., 1996.
The Fauna of Snakes of Armenia and Nakhichevan. PhD Thesis authoreferat,
Yerevan, 34 pp.
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I.S., Rjabov S.A., Barabanov A.V., 2004. Atlas
of Reptiles of Northern Eurasia, "Ivan Fedorov" Print, St.
Pererbourg, Russia, 230 pp.
Chernov S.A.,
1939. [Herpetological
Fauna of Armenian SSR and Nakhichevan ASSR] // Zoological Papers, Vol
I, (Transactions of Biological Institure, Vol. III). Edition of Armenian
Brunch of The USSR Academy of Scienecs, Erevan, 1939, pp. 77-194. (In
Russian)
Darevsky I.S., 1957.
The Fauna of Reptiles of Armenia and Its Zoogeographical Analysis. PhD
Thesis, Yerevan, 468 pp.
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