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Bungarus walli WALL, 1907

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Higher TaxaElapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Sind Krait 
SynonymBungarus sindanus walli WALL 1907: 608
Bungarus walli — CHOLMONDELEY 1908
Bungarus walli — WALL 1908: 24
Bungarus walli — WALL 1909: 149
Bungarus walli— SMITH 1943: 418
Bungarus walli — KLEMMER 1963
Bungarus sindanus walli — DAS & CHATURVEDI 1998
Bungarus sindanus walli — WHITAKER & CAPTAIN 2004
Bungarus sindanus walli — KÄSTLE et al. 2013: 312
Bungarus walli — WALLACH et al. 2014: 128
Bungarus walli — AHSAN & RAHMAN 2017 
DistributionC/S India (Uttar Pradesh), Nepal, Bangladesh

Type locality: Fyzabad, Uttar Pradesh, India; [26° 47'N, 82°09'E, elevation 100 m]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: BNHS = BNHM 2169, BMNH 1946.1.18.51-53, ZSI 15727 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (941 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentVenomous!

Synonymy: Mertens 1969 considered B. sindanus as a variant (and synonym) of B. caeruleus.

Distribution: Possibly in Bhutan (Lenz 2012). The ma in Kästle & Schleich 2013: 312 shows walli near the border of Nepal but not in Nepal. 
References
  • Ahsan, M.F. & M.M. Rahman 2017. Status, distribution and threats of kraits (Squamata: Elapidae: Bungarus) in Bangladesh. Journal of Threatened Taxa 9 (3): 9903–9910 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1897. A new krait from Sind (Bungarus sindanus). J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 11: 73-74 - get paper here
  • Cholmondeley, E.C. 1908. Kraits in Indore. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 18: 921-924 - get paper here
  • Das, Indraneil;Chaturvedi, Naresh 1998. Catalogue of the herpetological types in the collection of the Bombay Natural History Society. Hamadryad 23 (2): 150-156 - get paper here
  • Deshmukh, R.V., Sager A. Deshmukh & Swapnil A. Badhekar 2016. First records of Oligodon taeniolatus and Bungarus sindanus walli from Nagpur District, Maharashtra, India. Reptile RAP (18): 40–42 - get paper here
  • Devkota, Kamal; Dev Narayan Mandal, Ganesh Sah, Mark O’Shea, Hinrich Kaiser 2020. First Report of Leucism for the kraits Bungarus walli Wall, 1907 and B. niger Wall, 1908, with Updates on Their Geographic Distribution in Nepal (Serpentes, Elapidae) Herpetology Notes 13: 817-825 - get paper here
  • Kästle , W., Rai, K. & Schleich, H.H. 2013. FIELD GUIDE to Amphibians and Reptiles of Nepal. ARCO-Nepal e.V., 625 pp. - get paper here
  • Khan, M.S. 1985. Taxonomic notes on Bungarus caeruleus (Schneider) and Bungarus sindanus Boulenger. The Snake 17: 71-78
  • Khan, M.S. 1986. A noteworthy collection of Amphibians and reptiles from North- Western Punjab, Pakistan. The Snake 18: 118-125
  • Kral, B. 1969. Notes on the herpetofauna of certain provinces of Afghanistan. Zoologiske Listy 18, 55-66.
  • Kuch, Ulrich 2004. Bungarus sindanus Boulenger, 1897, an addition to the venomous snake fauna of Afghanistan. Herpetozoa 16 (3/4):171-173 - get paper here
  • Lenz, Norbert 2012. Von Schmetterlingen und Donnerdrachen - Natur und Kultur in Bhutan. Karlsruher Naturhefte 4, Naturkundemuseum Karlsruhe, 124 pp.
  • Pitman, C.R.S. 1913. Kraits in the Dera Ismail Khan District. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 22: 636 - get paper here
  • Roemer, K. & Mahyar-Roemer, M. 2006. Haltung, Nachzucht und Toxin des Indischen Kraits, Bungarus caeruleus (SCHNEIDER 1801). Elaphe 14 (1): 26-32
  • Sharma, R. C. 2004. Handbook Indian Snakes. AKHIL BOOKS, New Delhi, 292 pp.
  • Sharma, S.K., Pandey, D.P., Shah, K.B., Tillack, E, Chappuis, E, Thapa, C. L., AiroI, E. & Kuch, U. 2013. Venomous snakes of Nepal: a photographic guide. B.P. Kolrala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, 85 pp. - get paper here
  • Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-Region. Reptilia and Amphibia. 3 (Serpentes). Taylor and Francis, London. 583 pp.
  • Vyas, Raju 1998. Unusual marking pattern in krait Bungarus sindanus. Cobra 32: 34-35
  • Wall, F. 1906. The poisonous snakes of India and how to recognize them, Part I. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 17: 51-72 [correction on p. 995] - get paper here
  • Wall, F. 1907. Notes on Snakes collected in Fyzabad. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 18: 101-129 - get paper here
  • Wall, F. 1908. The poisonous terrestrial snakes of our British Indian dominions and how to recognise them, 2nd ed. Bombay, Bombay Natural History Society - get paper here
  • Wall, F. 1911. Remarks on a snake collection in the Quetta museum. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 20: 1033-1042 - get paper here
  • Wall,F. 1907. A new krait from Oudh (Bungarus walli). J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 17: 608-611 - get paper here
  • Wall,F. 1908. A popular treatise of the common Indian snakes. Part VIII. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 18: 711-735 - get paper here
  • Wall,F. 1909. Remarks on some little known Indian Ophidia. Records of the Indian Museum 3 (2): 145-150. - get paper here
  • Wall,F. 1913. On the Common (Bungarus caeruleus) and Sind Kraits (Bungarus sindanus). J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 22: 401 - get paper here
  • Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
  • Whitaker, Romulus and Ashok Captain 2004. Snakes of India. Draco Books, 500 pp., reprinted 2007 - get paper here
 
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