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Oligodon speleoserpens PAWANGKHANANT, POYARKOV, WARD-SMITH, GRASSBY-LEWIS, SUMONTHA, KLIUKIN, IDIIATULLINA, TROFIMETS, SUWANNAPOOM & LEE, 2024

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Cave Kukri Snake
Thai: ป่ีแก้วควนหิน (Ngu Pi Kaew Kuan Hin) 
SynonymOligodon speleoserpens PAWANGKHANANT, POYARKOV, WARD-SMITH, GRASSBY-LEWIS, SUMONTHA, KLIUKIN, IDIIATULLINA, TROFIMETS, SUWANNAPOOM & LEE 2024: 364 
DistributionThailand (Satun)

Type locality: entrance of Tham Le Stegodon Cave, Satun Province, Thailand (7.158315°N, 99.802631°E, 28 meters elevation).  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. ZMMU Re-17696 (field number ISS-128), adult male collected on 20 January 2023 by Pa- rinya Pawangkhanant and Sabira S. Idiiatullina.
Paratype. ZMMU Re-17697 (field number NAP-13128), adult female collected 24 September 2022 inside Tham Khao Ting Cave, Trang Province, Thailand (7.158315°N, 99.802631°E, 12 meters elevation), by Nikolay A. Poyar- kov, Nikita S. Kliukin, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom and Parinya Pawangkhanant. 
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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after the Latinzed Greek noun “spēlēum”, meaning “cave” and the Latin noun “serpens [= serpentis]”, the present active participle of “serpō” meaning “to crawl or creep”, often used in reference to snakes. 
References
  • Pawangkhanant, P., Poyarkov, N. A., Ward-Smith, H., Grassby-Lewis, R., Sumontha, M., Kliukin, N. S., ... & Lee, J. L. 2024. A new species of karst-associated kukri snake (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae: Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826) from southern Thailand. Vertebrate Zoology 74, 359-379
 
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