Bungarus suzhenae CHEN, SHI, VOGEL, DING & SHI, 2021

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Suzhen’s krait Chinese: 素贞环蛇 (sù zhēn huán shé)
Synonym	Bungarus suzhenae CHEN, SHI, VOGEL, DING & SHI 2021: 51 Bungarus multicinctus multicinctus – YANG & RAO 2008 Bungarus suzhenae — GERARD et al. 2024
Distribution	China (Yunnan), Myanmar (Kachin State), India (Nagaland, Manipur) Type locality: China, Yunnan Province, Yingjiang County (24.466941°N, 97.648691°E), 934 m elevation
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: CIB 116088, subadult male, collected from a road through rice fields in Yingjiang County, Yunnan Province, China (97.584451,24.662632, 922 m A.S.L), by Ding Li, in 2017. Paratypes: (n = 3): CIB
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Comment	Diet: In captivity, they prey on eels like Monopterus albus and small snakes such Xenochrophis flavipunctatus, Pareas spp., but refuse mice and frogs (CHEN et al. 2021). Distribution: Gerard et al. 2024 found the species in Nagaland close to the Manipur border, hence the species is likely present in the latter too).
Etymology	The specific epithet of the new species was named after Su-Zhen Bai, a famous powerful goddess of Chinese myth The legend of the White snake (白蛇传), in honor of her courage to true love and kindness to people.
References	Chen, Z. N., Shi, S. C., Vogel, G., Ding, L., & Shi, J. S. 2021. Multiple lines of evidence reveal a new species of Krait (Squamata, Elapidae, Bungarus) from Southwestern China and Northern Myanmar. ZooKeys, 1025: 35 - get paper here Gerard, J. D., Boruah, B., Deepak, V., & Das, A. 2024. First record of two species of venomous snakes Bungarus suzhenae and Ovophis zayuensis (Serpentes: Elapidae, Viperidae) from India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 16(6), 25385-25399 - get paper here Slowinski J B. 1994. A phylogenetic analysis of Bungarus (Elapidae) based on morphological characters. Journal of Herpetology 28 (4): 440-446 - get paper here Wang K, Lyu ZT, Wang J, Qi S, Che J 2022. Updated Checklist and Zoogeographic Division of the Reptilian Fauna of Yunnan Province, China. Biodiversity Science 30 (4): 21326, 1–31 - get paper here Yang DT, Rao DQ. 2008. Amphibia and Reptilia of Yunnan. Kunming: Yunnan Publishing Group Corporation, 1-411. (in Chinese)
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information http://zoobank.org/8F3B0FA6-9B11-4CE3-AAD6-926D159D5220 https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/278719307686008/ Google images

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