Oligodon cyclurus

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Cantor's Kukri Snake
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Oligodon
Species:
O. cyclurus
Binomial name
Oligodon cyclurus
(Cantor, 1839)
Synonyms
  • Coronella cyclura CANTOR 1839
  • Coronella violacea CANTOR 1839
  • Simotes bicatenatus GÜNTHER 1864
  • Simotes cochinchinensis GÜNTHER 1864
  • Simotes brevicauda STEINDACHNER 1867
  • Simotes bicatenatus — ANDERSON 1871
  • Simotes bicatenatus — STOLICZKA 1873
  • Simotes cyclurus — BOULENGER 1890
  • Simotes cyclurus — WALL 1908
  • Simotes albocinctus dorsolateralis WALL 1909 (fide WAGNER, pers. comm.)
  • Simotes albocinctus var. dorsolateralis — WALL 1910
  • Holarchus cyclurus — SMITH 1920
  • Oligodon purpurascens WALL 1923 (non SCHLEGEL)
  • Simotes smithi WERNER 1925 (fide SMITH 1928)
  • Holarchus purpurascens — COCHRAN 1930
  • Oligodon cyclurus — SMITH 1943: 202
  • Oligodon dorsolateralis — TAYLOR 1965
  • Rhynchocalamus violaceus
  • Olygodon [sic] cyclurus — SCHULZ 1988
  • Oligodon dorsolateralis — DAS 1996: 58
  • Oligodon dorsolateralis — CHAN-ARD et al. 1999: 34
  • Oligodon dorsolateralis — PAUWELS et al. 2002
  • Oligodon cyclurus — GREEN et al. 2010
  • Oligodon cyclurus — DAVID et al. 2011
  • Oligodon cyclurus — WALLACH et al. 2014 [2]

Oligodon cyclurus (Cantor's kukri snake) is a species of snake found in Asia. It was first described by Theodore Cantor in 1839. [3]

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Distribution

India (Assam), Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China (Yunnan).

Oligodon cyclurus dorsolateralis: Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), India (Assam).

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References

  1. ↑ Stuart, B.L.; Vogel, G.; Wogan, G.; Ghosh, A.; Khan, M. (2021). "Oligodon cyclurus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2021: e.T127903655A1483919. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T127903655A1483919.en . Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  2. ↑ Oligodon cyclurus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
  3. ↑ Beolens, B.; Watkins, M.; Grayson, M. (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 162. ISBN   978-1-4214-0227-7 . Retrieved 10 June 2019.


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