Eastern Montpellier Snake (Malpolon insignitus fuscus) Ophiophagy Behavior from Zagros Mountains

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Title	Eastern Montpellier Snake (Malpolon insignitus fuscus) Ophiophagy Behavior from Zagros Mountains
Type	JournalPaper
Keywords	Malpolon insignitus; Serpentes; Lamprophiidae; Kurdistan; Iran; Iraq; diet.
Year	2017
Journal	Russian Journal of Herpetology
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Researchers	Barbod Safaei Mahroo ، Hanyeh Ghaffari ، Saeed Salmabadi ، Arman kamangar ، Shirvan Almasi ، Seyed Mahdi KAZEMI ، Aram Ghafoor

Abstract

Herein, we present three cases of wild Malpolon insignitus preying on Platyceps najadum, Eirenis punctatolineatus, and Natrix tessellata from Iran, in addition one observation from Kurdistan of Iraq. Furthermore, we report two new records of M. insignitus from northwestern Iran.

Hanyeh Ghaffari

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