Telescopus rhinopoma

Telescopus rhinopoma is a species of rear-fanged mildly venomous snake in the family Colubridae. The species is found in the Middle East (Iran), South Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan), and Central Asia (Turkmenistan).

Telescopus rhinopoma

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Telescopus
Species:
T. rhinopoma
Binomial name
Telescopus rhinopoma
(Blanford, 1874)
Synonyms[2]
  • Dipsas rhinopoma
    Blanford, 1874
  • Tarbophis rhinopoma
    — Boulenger, 1895
  • Telescopus rhinopoma
    — Minton, 1962

Common names

Common names for T. rhinopoma include Indian desert cat snake,[1][2] leopard viper,[3] and desert cat snake.[1]

Geographic range

T. rhinopoma is found in southern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, southwestern Afghanistan, and western and northwestern Pakistan.[2]

Description

T. rhinopoma may attain a total length (including tail) of about one meter (39 inches). Dorsally, it is gray with dark brown blotches; ventrally it is dark brown, except for the throat which is white.[4]

Reproduction

T. rhinopoma is oviparous.[2]

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References
  1. Papenfuss T, Shafiei Bafti S, Ananjeva NB, Orlov NL, Nilson G (2017). "Telescopus rhinopoma ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T164693A49062553. http://oldredlist.iucnredlist.org/details/164693/0 Downloaded on 20 September 2017.
  2. Telescopus rhinopoma at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 24 September 2018.
  3. Latifi (1991).
  4. Smith MA (1943).

Further reading
  • Blanford WT (1874). "Descriptions of New Reptilia and Amphibia from Persia and Baluchistán". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Fourth Series 14: 31–35. (Dipsas rhinopoma, new species, p. 34). (in English and Latin).
  • Böhme W (1977). "Further Specimens of the Rare Cat Snake, Telescopus rhinopoma (Blanford, 1874) (Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae)". Journal of Herpetology 11 (2): 201–205.
  • Boulenger GA (1895). "An Addition to the Ophidian Fauna of India (Tarbophis rhinopoma, Blanf.)". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 9: 325. (Tarbophis rhinopoma, new combination).
  • Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Tarbophis rhinopoma, p. 50).
  • Latifi, Mahmoud (1991). The Snakes of Iran. Oxford, Ohio: Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. 156 pp. ISBN 0-916984-22-2. ("Telescopus rhinopoma, Leopard Viper", p. 120).
  • Smith MA (1943). The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Containing the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (Tarbophis rhinopoma, pp. 360–361, Figure 113, drawing of maxilla).


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