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Oligodon transcaspicus
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Streaked Kukuri Snake

Oligodon transcaspicus (Nikolsky, 1903)

Also calledGestreifte Kukrinatter (deu)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from
S Turkmenistan (SW Kopet-Dag), N Iran
Also published as
Contia transcaspica Nikolsky, 1903
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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the stacks

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Every page naming Oligodon transcaspicus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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References

  • Rajabizadeh, M. (2018). Snakes of Iran. [in Farsi]. Tehran: Iranshenasi, 496 Pp. [2017 ?].
  • Nikolsky, A. M. (1903). Contia transcaspica n. sp. (Ophidia, Colubridae). Annuaire Du Musée Zoologique de l’Académie Des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg 8(1):11–13 (in Russian and Latin, with French Titles).
  • Lee JL, Yushchenko PV, Milto KD, Rajabizadeh M, Rastegar Pouyani E, Jablonski D, Masroor R, Karunarathna S, Mallik AK, Dsouza P, Orlov N, Nazarov R, Poyarkov NA. (2023). Kukri snakes Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 of the Western Palearctic with the resurrection of Contia transcaspica Nikolsky, 1902 (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae). PeerJ 11:E15185 DOI 10.7717/Peerj.15185.
  • Filippov MN. (1947). On zoogeography of the TSSR. (in Russian). Transactions of the Ashkhabad State Pedagogical Institute 2: 95-97.
  • Chernov, Sergius A. (1935). Two specimens of the genus Oligodon (Ophidia, Colubridaae) in the Soviet Union. Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de l’Academie Des Sciences de l’URSS 1: 348-352.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.