Editing Smooth snake (section)

{{Short description|Species of non-venomous snake}}
{{About|the animal|other uses}}
{{Speciesbox
| name= Smooth snake
| image = Schlingnatter.jpg
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn |author=Crnobrnja-Isailović, J. |author2=Ajtic, R. |author3=Vogrin, M. |author4=Corti, C. |author5=Pérez Mellado, V. |author6=Sá-Sousa, P. |author7=Cheylan, M. |author8=Pleguezuelos, J. |author9=Westerström, A. |author10=De Haan, C.C. |author11=Tok, V. |author12=Borczyk, B. |author13=Sterijovski, B. |author14=Schmidt, B. |author15=Borkin, L. |author16=Milto, K. |author17=Golynsky, E. |author18=Rustamov, A, Nuridjanov, D. |author19=Munkhbayar, K. |author20=Shestopal, A. |author21=Litvinchuk, S. |display-authors=3 |year=2017 |title=Coronella austriaca |page=e.T157284A748852 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T157284A748852.en |access-date=9 June 2022}}</ref>
| taxon = Coronella austriaca
| authority = [[Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti|Laurenti]], 1768<ref name=RDB>{{EMBL species|genus=Coronella|species=austriaca}}. www.reptile-database.org.</ref>
| range_map = CoronellaAustriacaIUCNver2020-1.png
| range_map_caption = Range of ''C. austriaca''
}}
The '''smooth snake''' ('''''Coronella austriaca''''')<ref name="Str79">Street D (1979). ''The Reptiles of Northern and Central Europe''. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. 268 pp. {{ISBN|0-7134-1374-3}}.</ref> is a [[species]] of non-[[venomous snake]] in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Colubridae]]. The species is found in northern and central Europe, but also as far east as northern Iran. The [[Reptile Database]] recognizes two [[subspecies]] as being valid, including the [[nominotypical subspecies]] described here.<ref name=RDB/>