Natrix tessellata

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Natricinae
Genus: Natrix
Species: Natrix tessellata

Natrix tessellata (Laurenti, 1768)

• Holotype: not designated, formerly FAT (Museo Illustrissimi Turriano), location unknown.
• Type locality: “Japidia, vulgo Cars” [=Kras Plateau, Slovenia].

• Coronella tessellata Laurenti, 1768: 87 [original combination]
• Coluber tessellatus — Gmelin, 1788: 1114 [subsequent combination]
• Natrix tessellatus — Merrem, 1820: 136 [subsequent combination]
• Tropidonotus tessellatus — Wagler, 1830: 179 [subsequent combination]
• Natrix tessellata — Bonaparte, 1834 [subsequent combination]

• Laurenti, J.N. 1768. Specimen medicum, exhibens synopsin reptilium emendatam cum experimentis circa venena et antidota reptilium austriacorum, quod authoritate et consensu (In Latin). Joan Thomae: Vienna. 217 pp. BHL Reference page. 

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Natrix tessellata. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 24 January 2019.
• Agasyan, A., Avci, A., Tuniyev, B., Isailovic, J.C., Lymberakis, P., Andrén, C., Cogalniceanu, D., Wilkinson, J., Ananjeva, N., Üzüm, N., Orlov, N., Podloucky, R., Tuniyev, S., Kaya, U., Ajtic, R., Vogrin M., Corti, C., Mellado, V.P., Sá-Sousa, P., Cheylan, M., Pleguezuelos, J., Baha El Din, S.M., Nettmann, H.K., De Haan, C.C., Sterijovski, B., Schmidt, B. & Meyer, A. 2010. IUCN: Natrix tessellata  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T157256A5062170. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T157256A5062170.en. Accessed on 26 June 2023.

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