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Telescopus

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Telescopus, the Old World catsnakes, is a genus of 12 species of mildly venomous opisthoglyphous snakes in the family Colubridae.

Species

Cat Snake

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassSquamata
  4. FamilyColubridae
Observations951
Observations recorded4,442

Telescopus es un género de serpientes de la familia Colubridae. Sus especies se distribuyen por el sudeste de Europa, la mitad occidental de Asia y África.

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
44
With media
6
Family
Colubridae
Collections
RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, OMNH, UF, CAS, MVZ, TM
Recorded in
Egypt, Angola, Namibia, Sudan, Israel, Tanzania, Sans Origine, Iraq

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Encyclopedic overview

10 sections
Contents
  • Geographic range
  • Description
  • Habitat and Behaviour
  • Diet
  • Reproduction
  • Venom
  • Species
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

Telescopus, the Old World catsnakes, is a genus of 12 species of mildly venomous opisthoglyphous snakes in the family Colubridae.

==Geographic range== Species of the genus Telescopus are found from the Balkans and Pakistan through to southern and western Africa, plus two species in northern Eurasia.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Telescopus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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