Snakes of Orenburg region reserves

The dates and places of encounters of snakes for the period 1992-2021 in the reserves of the Orenburg region are given: the cluster areas "Talovskaya Steppe", "Predural'skaya Steppe", "Burtinskaya Steppe", "Aituarskaya Steppe" and "Ashchisayskaya Steppe" of the Reserve "Orenburgsky", the Reserve "Shaitan-Tau". The ophidiofauna of the Orenburgsky Reserve includes five species: Natrix natrix , N. tessellata , Coronella austriaca , Elaphe dione , Vipera renardi . Over the past decades E. dione has disappeared in the cluster area "Burtinskaya Steppe". There are two species of snakes in the reserve "Shaitan-Tau": N. natrix , V. renardi .