Oligodon meyerinkii

Oligodon meyerinkii
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Oligodon
Species:	O. meyerinkii
Binomial name
Oligodon meyerinkii (Steindachner, 1891)
Synonyms [2]
Simotes meyerinkii Steindachner, 1891 Simotes octolineatus var. C. Steindachner, 1891 Holarchus meyerinkii (Steindachner, 1891)

Oligodon meyerinkii is a species of snake in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. The species is native to parts of Southeast Asia. It is commonly known as Meyerink's kukri snake, ^[3] the Sulu kukri snake, and the Sulu short-headed snake. ^{[1] [2]}

Etymology

The specific name, meyerinkii, is probably in honor of Hermann Friedrich Meyerink (1850–1908), who was the German Consul to the Philippines in Manila, although Steindachner gives no etymology. ^{[3] : 177}

Geographic range

Oligodon meyerinkii is found in the Philippines on the islands of Bongao, Jolo, Sibutu and Tawi-Tawi in Sulu Archipelago, and possibly in the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo. ^{[1] [2]}

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of Oligodon meyerinkii is forest. ^[1]

Behavior

Oligodon meyerinkii is terrestrial, semifossorial, and semiarboreal. ^[1]

Reproduction

Oligodon meyerinkii is oviparous. ^[2]

References

1. Diesmos, A.C.; Iskandar, D.; Inger, R.F.; Das, I.; Pitogo, K.; Kim, P. (2022). "Oligodon meyerinkii ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2022: e.T169893A180800279.
2. Oligodon meyerinkii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 23 May 2017.
3. Beolens, B.; Watkins, M.; Grayson, M. (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. xiii + 296. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5.

Further reading

• Boulenger, G.A. (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History), Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I–XX. (Simotes octolineatus var. C., p. 224).
• Steindachner, F. (1891). "Über einige neue und seltene Reptilien- und Amphibien-Arten ". Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 100: 291–316 + Plates I–II. (Simotes meyerinkii, new species, pp. 294–295). (in German).
• Taylor, E.H. (1922). The Snakes of the Philippine Islands. Manila: Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Bureau of Science. 312 pp. + Plates 1–37. (Holarchus meyerinkii, new combination, pp. 139–140 + Plate 14 + Plate 17, figures 6–7).
• Weinell, J.L.; Hooper, E.; Leviton, A.E.; Brown, R.M. (2019). "Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series. 66 (1): 149.