Cantor's Kukri Snake

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Examined specimens: BANGLADESH: Rangpur City: ZSI-K 7087. INDIA: Meghalaya State: BNHS 804, 806; West Bengal State: BNHS 808 – 812, NHMW 24535.4, 24535.8, ZSI-K 7087, 8611 – 12, 12878, 18674. MYANMAR: No further locality data: MCZ R- 177743 – 744, R- 2281, R- 3647, R- 4205; NHMUK 1868.4.9.7 – 8, 68.4.3.52 – 54, 1908.6.23.47, NHMW 25822.3, 25822.5 – 7, ZSI-K 7091, 8616 12390; Ayeyarwady Region: BNHS 802; CAS 204963, 213299, 222679, 222888; NHMUK 1938.8.7.29; USNM 587335; Bago Region: NHMUK 93.1.16.3, 1924.1.30.2; Chin State: CAS 220123; Kachin State: MSNG 30525 (A – B, D), 30259, NHMW 24534.2, USNM 123439; Mandalay Region: CAS 216181; NHMUK 1925.9.18.1 – 6; 1925.11.22.36 – 37; Sagaing Region: CAS 215602, 211598; USNM 520625, 524069 – 70, 537439; Shan State: CAS 236093, MSNG 31969, NHMUK 1970.1982; Tanintharyi Region: NHMUK 84.5.8.12, 1940.3.4.39; Yangon Region: BNHS 799; CAS 208430, 213326, 213502; NHMUK 1908.6.23.48 – 49 (1 – 4); UF 48849; ZSI-K 11571. NO FURTHER LOCALITY DATA: BNHS 813, ZSI-K (unnumbered specimen).

Color polymorphism, taxonomic confusion and cryptic diversity in the kukri snake Oligodon albocinctus (Cantor, 1839) (Squamata: Colubridae)

Oligodon cyclurus

Key to the Oligodon cyclurus -group We include in this key all known members of the Oligodon cyclurus -group. This group of Oligodon is mainly characterized by long and deeply forked hemipenes, neither spinose or papillate, 17–23 dorsal scale rows, 10– 12 maxillary teeth, a full complement of head scales, including a loreal and a presubocular, anal plate entire; and a body usually blotched or reticulated pattern, never prominently striped. We also include in the key the Indo-Malayan species Oligodon purpurascens, as currently defined (Tweedie, 1983). This latter species has often been confused with members of the O. cyclurus -group. 1. 21 or 23 DSR at neck and midbody .............................................................................. Oligodon fasciolatus - No more than 19 rows at midbody...............................................................................................................2 2. 19 DSR at neck and midbody.......................................................................................................................3 - 17 or 19 rows at neck, no more than 18 DSR at midbody.................................................................

A new species of the genus Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 (Squamata: Colubridae) from southern Vietnam and Cambodia