Oligodon modestus GÜNTHER, 1864

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Luzon Kukri Snake
Synonym	Oligodon modestus GÜNTHER 1864: 210 Oligodon modestus — TAYLOR 1922: 147 Oligodon modestum — LEVITON 1963: 473 Oligodon modestum — GAULKE 2001: 28 Oligodon modestum — FERNER et al. 2001 Oligodon modestus — GAULKE 2011: 296 Oligodon modestum — DAVID & VOGEL 2012 Oligodon modestus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 490
Distribution	Philippines (Luzon, Mindanao, Negros, Tablas, Panay) Type locality: Philippines, restricted to “Negros Oriental Province, Negros Island” (by LEVITON 1963)
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Type: BMNH 1946.1.5.54 (and possibly additional specimens).
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (776 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	The original description is available online (see link below). Distribution: “The type, collected by H. Cuming, is reported from "Philippine Islands;" the exact locality is no longer known. A specimen is recorded from southern Negros, taken by A. Everett. Both these specimens are males. I failed to find this species in my collecting in central and northern Negros; if it occurs there, it is probably very rare.” (Taylor 1922)
References	DAVID, PATRICK & GERNOT VOGEL 2012. A new species of the genus Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 (Squamata: Colubridae) from Pulau Nias, Indonesia. Zootaxa 3201: 58–68 - get paper here Ferner, John W., Rafe M. Brown, Rogelio V. Sison and Robert S. Kennedy 2000. The amphibians and reptiles of Panay Island, Philippines. Asiatic Herpetological Research 9: 1-37 - get paper here Gaulke, M. 2001. Die Herpetofauna von Sibaliw (Panay), einem der letzten Tieflandregenwaldgebiete der West-Visayas, Philippinen. Teil II: Schlangen. Herpetofauna 23 (131): 23-34 - get paper here Gaulke, M. 2011. The herpetofauna of Panay Island, Philippines. Edition Chimaira, 390 pp. Green, Marc D.; Nikolai L. Orlov and Robert W. Murphy 2010. Toward a Phylogeny of the Kukri Snakes, Genus Oligodon. Asian Herpetological Research 1 (1): 1-21 - get paper here Günther, A. 1864. The Reptiles of British India. London (Taylor & Francis), xxvii + 452 pp. - get paper here Leviton, A.E. 1963. Contributions to a review of Philippine snakes. I. The snakes of the genus Oligodon. Philippine J. Sci. 91 (4): 459-484 [1962] - get paper here Meneses CG, Siler CD, Alviola PA, Gonzalez JCT, Balatibat JB, Natividad CA, Brown RM 2022. Amphibian and reptile diversity along a ridge-to-reef elevational gradient on a small isolated oceanic island of the central Philippines. Check List 18(5): 941-948 - get paper here Sison R; Gonzales P C; Ferner J W 1995. New island records from Panay, Philippines. Herpetological Review 26 (1): 48-49. - get paper here Solania, C. L., Cuadrado, J. T., Galolo, A. R. V., & Gamalinda, E. F. 2021. Species Richness and Community Structure of Amphibians and Reptiles in Andanan Watershed Forest Reserve, Caraga Region, Philippines. Biodiversity Journal 12 (3): 673–694 - get paper here Taylor, E.H. 1922. The snakes of the Philippine Islands. Manila (Bureau of Printing or Science), Monograph 16: 312 pp. - 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. Weinell, Jeffrey L.; Errol Hooper, Alan E. Leviton, Rafe M. Brown 2019. Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (4) 66 (1): 1-49 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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