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    Species Accepted

    Telescopus variegatus (Reinhardt, 1843)

    Variable Cat Snake

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      3 results
      Variable Cat Snake English
      Vestafrikansk Kattesnog Danish
      West African Cat Snake English

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Barnett, Linda K. & Emms, Craig. (2005). Common reptiles of The Gambia. Rare Repro, Hailsham, East Sussex, 24 Pp.
      Hughes, B. (2013). Snakes of Bénin, West Africa. Bull. Soc. Herp. France 144: 101-159.
      TRAPE, JEAN-FRANÇOIS, & CELLOU BALDÉ. (2014). A checklist of the snake fauna of Guinea, with taxonomic changes in the genera Philothamnus and Dipsadoboa (Colubridae) and a comparison with the snake fauna of some other West African countries. Zootaxa 3900 (3): 301–338.
      Chirio, L. (2009). Inventaire des reptiles de la région de la Réserve de Biosphère Transfrontalière du W (Niger/Bénin/Burkina Faso: Afrique de l’Ouest). [Herpetological survey of the W Transfrontier Biosphere Reserve area (Niger/Benin/Burkina Faso: West Africa]. Bull. Soc. Herp. France (132): 13-41.
      Menzies, J. I. (1966). The snakes of Sierra Leone. Copeia 1966 (2): 169-179.
      Reinhardt, J. T. (1843). Beskrivelse af nogle nye Slangearter. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Afhandl. 10: 233-279.
      Böhme, Wolfgang, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Christian Brede, & Philipp Wagner. (2011). The reptiles (Testudines, Squamata, Crocodylia) of the forested southeast of the Republic Guinea (Guinée forestière), with a country-wide checklist. Bonn Zoological Bulletin 60 (1): 35-61.
      Sternfeld, R. (1917). Reptilia und Amphibia. In: Schubotz, H. (Hrsg.): Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Zweiten Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition, 1910-1911 unter Führung Adolph Friedrichs, Herzog zu Mecklenburg. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, [Band] 1, Zoologie, Lieferung 11; S. 407-510.

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