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Telescopus tripolitanus (WERNER, 1909)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesG: Ägyptische Katzennatter 
SynonymLeptodira tripolitana WERNER 1909
Tarbophis guidimakaensis CHABANAUD 1916
Pseudotarbophis gabesi DOMERGUE 1955 (nom. emend.)
Pseudotarbophis gabesiensis — DOMERGUE 1959 [in error]
Telescopus tripolitanus — TRAPE & MANÉ 2002
Telescopus guidimakaensis — GENIEZ et al. 2004
Telescopus tripolitanus — VENCHI & SINDACO 2006
Telescopus guidimakaensis — PADIAL 2006
Telescopus tripolitanus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 713
Telescopus tripolitanus — ŠMÍD et al. 2019 
DistributionMorocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, N Nigeria (TRAPE & MANÉ 2002, 2006), Central African Republic (Birao, L. Chirio, pers. comm., 23 Aug 2013), Libya, Republic of South Sudan (RSS), Sudan (Jumhūriyyat)

Type locality: Tripoli

guidimakaensis: Mauritania (Guidimaka), Western Sahara  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: lost (fide V. Wallach, pers. comm.) 
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CommentVenomous, but usually not dangerous to humans.

Synonymy: Partly after Crochet al. 2008. Has been synonymized with T. obtusus. Populations from Morocco previously have been called T. dhara.

Distribution: For maps see Sindaco et al. 2013, Crochet et al. 2008: 30 (Fig. 2), Šmíd et al. 2019: 39 (Fig. 1). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin for Tripoli, the type locality. 
References
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