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Oligodon violaceus
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Coral red kukri snake

Oligodon violaceus Cantor, 1839

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
India (Assam, Uttar Pradesh), SW Nepal, Bangladesh
Also published as
Oligodon kheriensis Acharji & Ray, 1936
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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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References

  • Pandey, Deb Prasad, Bishnu Lama, Dipendra Dhungel, Aniket Modak and Dusan Jelic. (2016). Oligodon kheriensis ACHARJI & RAY, 1936, in India and Nepal, with notes on distribution, ecology and conservation. Herpetozoa 28 (3/4): 181-184.
  • Bhattarai S., Gurung A., Lamichhane BR., Regmi R., Dhungana M., Kumpakha B. and Subedi N. (2020). Amphibians and Reptiles of Chure Range, Nepal. President Chure Terai-Madhesh Conservation Development Board and National Trust for Nature Conservation, Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal.
  • Pandey, & Deb Prasad. (2018). New records of snakes from Chitwan National Park and vicinity, Central Nepal. Herpetology Notes 11: 679-696.
  • Schleich, H.H. & Kästle, W. (eds.). (2002). Amphibians and Reptiles of Nepal. Koeltz, Königstein, 1200 Pp. [Review in Reptilia 40: 87].
  • Nath, Anukul; Vivek Sarkar, Pathik Saha, Pushpal Goswami, Sanjoy Sutradhar, Sanjeev Ray, Kingshuk Das Chaudhuri, Biswajit Chakdar, abhijit@wii.gov.in. (2021). Connecting the dots: New distribution records of the rare Coral Red Kukri Snake, Oligodon kheriensis Acharjee and Ray 1936, in India. Reptiles & Amphibians 28 (1): 91-93.
  • Cantor, T. E. (1839). Spicilegium serpentium indicorum [part 1]. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1839: 31-34.

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