New records of one of the least known snakes, Telescopus pulcher (Squamata: Colubridae) from the Horn of Africa
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F18%3A10381007" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/18:10381007 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00023272:_____/18:10133983 RIV/00023752:_____/18:43920528
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4462.4.2" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4462.4.2</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4462.4.2" target="_blank" >10.11646/zootaxa.4462.4.2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
New records of one of the least known snakes, Telescopus pulcher (Squamata: Colubridae) from the Horn of Africa
Original language description
Telescopus pulcher is an enigmatic colubrid snake only known from the holotype and paratype specimens described from 'Migiurtinia' in Puntland (Somalia) in 1935. Herein we recorded the third and fourth-ever known specimens of this species from the Toon village, Woqooyi Galbeed Region, and 15 km southeast of Sheikh, Saahil Region, Somaliland. The species is endemic to Somaliland and adjoining parts of Ethiopia and Puntland. Data on morphology and natural history, as well as the first photographs of live specimens are provided. We also provide a detailed description of the paratype. The coloration of the species resembles that of the vipers of the genus Echis and we hypothesize that T.pulcher mimics these common and sympatric vipers in the Horn of Africa.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Zootaxa
ISSN
1175-5326
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
4462
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
NZ - NEW ZEALAND
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
483-496
UT code for WoS article
000442868600002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85052682641