Common name: the Dahl’s Whipsnake
Conservation status: Least Concern
Distribution: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Montenegro, Macedonia, Russia, Serbia, Syria, Turkey, Turkmenistan
Size: up to 1000 mm
Description: upperside coloration is brown or brownish-gray, there are dark spots circled with yellow on both sides of the neck
Habitat: dry or xerophytic areas, such as stony semi-desert and wermuth steppe
Activity: diurnal
Diet: lizards and small vertebrates
Reproduction: oviparous
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