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Telescopus
Sign in to saveTelescopus, the Old World catsnakes, is a genus of 12 species of mildly venomous opisthoglyphous snakes in the family Colubridae.
Species
Cat Snake
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassSquamata
- FamilyColubridae
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.
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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 sectionsContents
- 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.