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    Telescopus pulcher (Scortecci, 1935)

    Beautiful Cat Snake
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Telescopus
    IUCNData Deficient

    Classification and descendants

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      Vernacular names

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      Beautiful Cat Snake English

      Bibliography

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      13 results
      Lanza, B. (1990). Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography. Biogeographia, 14: 407-465 [1988].
      Mazuch, & Tomáš. (2013). Amphibians and Reptiles of Somaliland and Eastern Ethiopia. Tomáš Mazuch Publishing, 80 Pp. ISBN: 978-80-905439-0-4.
      Largen, M. J., & Spawls, S. (2010). Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 694 Pp.
      Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy. (2014). Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue]. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 Pp.
      Ribeiro-Júnior, Marco A; Claudia Koch, Morris Flecks, Patrick D Campbell, Marta Calvo, Stephen Spawls, Nicolas Vidal, Shai Meiri. (2025). What is revealed from a widely distributed species in Africa and Southwest Asia? The case of the Telescopus dhara–obtusus species complex (Squamata: Colubridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 205, Issue 3, November 2025, Zlaf117,.
      MAZUCH, TOMÁŠ; JIŘÍ ŠMÍD, THOMAS PRICE, PETRA FRÝDLOVÁ, AHMED IBRAHIM AWALE, HASSAN SH ABDIRAHMAN ELMI, DANIEL FRYNTA. (2018). New records of one of the least known snakes, Telescopus pulcher (Squamata: Colubridae) from the Horn of Africa. Zootaxa 4462 (4): 483-496.
      Šmíd, J., Göçmen, B., Crochet, P.-A., Trape, J.-F., Mazuch, T., Uvizl, M., & Nagy, Z. T. (2019). Ancient diversification, biogeography, and the role of climatic niche evolution in the Old World cat snakes (Colubridae, Telescopus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
      Scortecci, G. (1935). Un nuovo genere e una nuova specie di Colubridi Opisoglifi della penisola dei Somali. Annali Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Giacomo Doria 59: 1-5.
      Scortecci, G. (1939). Spedizione zoologica del Marchese Saverio patrizi nel Basso Giuba e nell’Oltre Giuba. Giugno-agosto 1934. XII. Rettili Ofidi. Annali Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Giacomo Doria 58: 263-291.
      Spawls, Stephen; Tomáš Mazuch & Abubakr Mohammad. (2023). Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 Pp.

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