page_title: Telescopus
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Telescopus / Species
caption_attribution_description: English: Beetz's Tiger Snake (Telescopus beetzii), also known as Namib Tiger Snake, found in Hardap, Namib desert, Namibia.
context_page_description: Telescopus, the Old World catsnakes, is a genus of 12 species of mildly venomous opisthoglyphous snakes in the family Colubridae.
context_section_description: Telescopus beetzi (Barbour, 1922) - Beetz's tiger snake, Namib tiger snake
  Telescopus dhara (Forskål, 1775)
  Telescopus fallax (Fleischmann, 1831)
  Telescopus finkeldeyi Haacke, 2013 - Damara tiger snake
  Telescopus gezirae Broadley, 1994
  Telescopus hoogstraali K.P. Schmidt & Marx, 1956
  Telescopus nigriceps (Ahl, 1924)
  Telescopus obtusus (Reuss, 1834) - Egyptian catsnake
  Telescopus pulcher (Scortecci, 1935)
  Telescopus rhinopoma (Blanford, 1874)
  Telescopus semiannulatus A. Smith, 1849
  Telescopus tessellatus (Wall, 1908) - checkered catsnake
  Telescopus tripolitanus (F. Werner, 1908)
  Telescopus variegatus (J.T. Reinhardt, 1843)
caption: Telescopus beetzi - Beetz's tiger snake also known as Namib tiger snake.
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