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
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]

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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