Telescopus hoogstraali

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Telescopus
Species: Telescopus hoogstraali

Name

• Telescopus hoogstraali Schmidt & Marx, 1956: 33

Holotype: CNHM 72027, ♂.

Type locality: “Wadi el Sheikh, St. Catherine’s Monastery area, Sinai Peninsula [, Egypt]. ... at about 5000 feet altitude, among rocks on a hill-side.”

Combinations

• Telescopus fallax hoogstraali — Zinner, 1977: 210 [name combination, reduce to subspecies]

References

Primary references

• Schmidt, K P. & Marx, H. 1956. The herpetology of Sinai. Fieldiana: Zoology 39(4): 21–40. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Zinner, H. 1977. The status of Telescopus hoogstraali Schmidt and Marx 1956 and the Telescopus fallax Fleischmann 1831 complex (Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae). Journal of Herpetology 11(2): 207–212. JSTOR

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, P., Reyes, R., Kudera, F. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Telescopus hoogstraali. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 15 January 2018.
• Disi M., A.M., Werner, Y. & Baha El Din, S. 2006. IUCN: Telescopus hoogstraali  (Endangered). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2006: e.T61582A12498578. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T61582A12498578.en