Tiger cat snake

Weight

up to 132.7 gsrc for Weight

Length

up to 1.05 msrc for Length

Lifespan

7.6 yearssrc for Lifespan

Diet

Carnivoresrc for Diet

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

grassland, shrublandsrc for Habitat

Egg incubation

70.5 dayssrc for Egg incubation

Young per litter or clutch

11.5src for Young per litter or clutch

Litters or clutches a year

1 – 2src for Litters or clutches a year

Reproduction

Eggssrc for Reproduction

Active

At night (nocturnal)src for Active

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

Not recorded

Not recorded

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classReptilia
4. orderSquamata
5. familyColubridae
6. genusTelescopus
7. SpeciesTelescopus semiannulatus Smith, 1849

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• Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
  Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf
• ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles · CC BY 4.0 · v1-2
  Oskyrko, O., Mi, C., Meiri, S. et al. (2024) ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles. Scientific Data 11: 243. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03079-5. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24572683.v4
• SquamBase 1.0 - a dataset of squamate species traits · CC0 1.0 · 1.0-dryad-v5
  Meiri, S. (2024) SquamBase - a database of squamate (Reptilia: Squamata) traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33(4): e13812. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13812. Data: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.76hdr7t3b

@misc{tiger_cat_snake_2026,
  title = {Tiger cat snake (Telescopus semiannulatus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/tiger-cat-snake},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}