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Oligodon juglandifer (WALL, 1909)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Walnut Kukri Snake
E: Medog Kukri Snake [lipipengi] 
SynonymSimotes albocinctus var. juglandifer WALL 1909: 349
Oligodon juglandifer — SMITH 1943: 207
Oligodon juglandifer — DAS 1996: 58
Oligodon juglandifer — DAVID et al. 2011
Oligodon juglandifer — WALLACH et al. 2014: 498
Oligodon lipipengi JIANG, WANG, LI, DING, DING & CHE in CHE et al. 2020: 701 
DistributionNE India (Sikkim, Meghalaya, Darjeeling, West Bengal), Bhutan

Type locality: "neighbourhood of Darjeeling, about the Railway between the foot hills and Tindharia, i.e. at an altitude between about 500 and 2,800 feet" [= Tindharia, Darjeeling Distr., ext. N West Bengal State, NE India, 26°51'N, 88°20'E, elevation 150-850 m]

lipipengi (invalid): China (Tibet); Type locality: Beibeng, Medog, Tibet (29.239° N, 95.176° E, 680 m elevation)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BNHS = BNHM 210; Additional material: 1 ♀, BNHS 3770, collected from Gangtok, Sikkim by Kunal Purandere, Prathamesh Dange, Virender K. Bhardwaj and Zeeshan A. Mirza on 28 May 2024. 1♀BNHS 831 Phoobsering T.E., Darjeeling; 1♂ BNHS 815 Takdah, Darjeeling; 1♂ BNHS 832 Tumsong, Darjeeling; 2♂BNHS 834 & BNHS 835 Phoobsering T.E., Darjeeling. Two damaged or dehydrated specimens, BNHS 833 from Tumsong, Darjeeling and BNHS 836 from Phoobsering T.E., Darjeeling. Skulls NHMUK 1930.5.8.581-584 from Darjeeling District collected by Frank Wall.
Holotype: KIZ 011055, adult male, collected on May 28, 2011, by Pipeng LI. Paratypes: KIZ011042, adult male, collected as same locality and date as holotype; KIZ019520, adult male, collected from the road of Didong to Xi.rang, Beibeng (29.183° N, 95.033° E, 810 m), Medog on April 17, 2016, by Ke JIANG, Yufan WANG, and Cheng LI; KIZ032540, adult male, collected from Dexing, Medog in June 2018, by Xiaoyong DING; holotype and above 3 paratypes are deposited in the Zoological Museum, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. SYNU04II6240, adult male, collected from Medog County in August 2004, by Dingqi RAO and Wenge ZHAO, deposited in henyang Normal University. CIB9894, adult female, collected from Beibeng, Medog on July 21, 1983, y Shengquan LI; CIB9895, adult female, collected from Medog in 1974, collector is unknown, above 2 paratypes are deposited in the Herpetological Museum, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. [lipipengi] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (3954 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy: Patel et al. synonymized O. lipipengi with O. juglandifer.

NCBI taxonID: 2773710 [lipipengi]

RDB speciesID: 23294 [lipipengi] 
References
  • Basfore, B., Kalita, M. J., Sharma, N., & Boro, A. R. 2024. An updated checklist of snakes (Reptilia: Squamata) in northeastern India derived from a review of recent literature. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 16(11), 26131-26149 - get paper here
  • Che J, Jiang K, Yan F, Zhang Y. 2020. Amphibians and Reptiles in Tibet––Diversity and Evolution. Science Press, Beijing, China. 803 pp
  • DAVID, PATRICK; INDRANEIL DAS & GERNOT VOGEL 2011. On some taxonomic and nomenclatural problems in Indian species of the genus Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 (Squamata: Colubridae). Zootaxa 2799: 1–14 - get paper here
  • NEANG, THY; L. LEE GRISMER & JENNIFER C. DALTRY 2012. A new species of kukri snake (Colubridae: Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826) from the Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary, Cardamom Mountains, southwest Cambodia. Zootaxa 3388: 41–55 - get paper here
  • NGUYEN, SANG NGOC; VU DANG HOANG NGUYEN, SON HONG LE, ROBERT W. MURPHY 2016. A new species of kukri snake (Squamata: Colubridae: Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826) from Con Dao Islands, southern Vietnam. Zootaxa 4139 (2): 261–273 - get paper here
  • Patel, H., Bhardwaj, V. K., Thackeray, T., Campbell, P. D., & Mirza, Z. A. 2025. Phylogeny and Systematics of Oligodon juglandifer (Wall, 1909) with Comments on the Taxonomic Status of Oligodon lipipengi Jiang, Wang, Li, Ding, Ding & Che in Che et al. 2020. Diversity 17(3): 143 - get paper here
  • Sapkota, S. & Sharma, V. 2017. Geographic Distribution: Oligodon juglandifer (Walnut Kukri Snake). Herpetological Review 48 (3): 590. - get paper here
  • Sharma, R. C. 2004. Handbook Indian Snakes. AKHIL BOOKS, New Delhi, 292 pp.
  • 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.
  • Wall,F. 1909. Notes on snakes from the neighbourhood of Darjeeling. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 19: 337-357 - 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.
  • Wangyal, Jigme Tshelthrim 2019. The status of herpetofauna of Bhutan. District Forest Office, District Administration, Trashigang, Bhutan, 20-39 - get paper here
 
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