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Telescopus hoogstraali SCHMIDT & MARX, 1956

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymTelescopus fallax hoogstraali SCHMIDT & MARX 1956: 33
Telescopus hoogstraali — VENCHI & SINDACO 2006
Telescopus hoogstraali — WALLACH et al. 2014: 711
Telescopus hoogstrallii — GENIEZ 2018 (in error)
Telescopus hoogstraali — ŠMÍD et al. 2019 
DistributionS Israel, SW Jordan

Type locality: Wadi el Sheikh, St. Catherine’s Monastery area,
Sinai, elevation about 5000 feet  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: FMNH 72027 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A Telescopus with scale rows 19, anal plate divided, ventrals in males 214-216, caudals 51-59, three labials entering the eye, loreal broadly entering the eye below the preocular. Head black above and below, body with gray ground color and obscure narrow darker crossbands, venter light with a broad darker median band, punctulate with black [from SCHMIDT & MARX 1956].


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CommentVenomous, but usually not dangerous to humans.

Phylogenetics: T. nigriceps and T. hoogstraali are paraphyletic with respect to T. fallax (s.l.). The T. fallax group is thus in need of revision (SMID et al. 2019).

Distribution: For maps see Sindaco et al. 2013, Bar et al. 2021, Šmíd et al. 2019: 39 (Fig. 1). 
EtymologyNamed after Harold "Harry" Hoogstraal (1917-1986), American medical zoologist, entomologist, and ecologist who travelled widely in Mexico, New Guinea, the Philippines, Africa and Madagascar. 
References
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  • Bar, Aviad and Guy Haimovitch 2012. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Israel. Pazbar LTD, 246 pp. - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
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  • Disi, Ahmad; Zuhair S. Amr, Nashat Hamidan 2014. Diversity, Threats, and Conservation of the Terrestrial and Freshwater Herpetofauna of Jordan. Russ. J. Herpetol. 21 (3): 221-233 - get paper here
  • Geniez, Philippe 2018. Snakes of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Princeton University Press, 384 pp. - get paper here
  • Meiri, Shai; Amos Belmaker, Daniel Berkowic, Kesem Kazes, Erez Maza, Guy Bar-Oz and Roi Dor 2019. A checklist of Israeli land vertebrates. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution - get paper here
  • Schmidt, K. P. & Marx, H. 1956. The herpetology of Sinai. Fieldiana 39 (4): 21-40 - get paper here
  • Sindaco, R.; Alberto Venchi & Cristina Grieco 2013. The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic, Volume 2: Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Snakes of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia, with an Update to Volume 1. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 543 pp. - get paper here
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