Oligodon melanozonatus WALL, 1922

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Abor Hills Kukri Snake Chinese: 黑带小头蛇
Synonym	Oligodon melanozonatus WALL 1922 Oligodon melanozonotus [sic] — SMITH 1943: 213 Oligodon melanozonatus — DAS 1996: 58 Oligodon melanozonatus — ZHAO 2006: 231 Oligodon melanozonatus — DAVID et al. 2011 Oligodon melanozonatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 499
Distribution	India (Arunachal Pradesh), China (Xizang = Tibet) Type locality: ‘Upper Rotung Valley, Abor Hills, Assam frontier, at about 2000 feet elevation’ (in Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India).
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntype: ZSI 16799
Diagnosis
Comment
References	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 DAVID, PATRICK; TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN, TAO THIEN NGUYEN, KE JIANG, TIANBO CHEN, ALEXANDRE TEYNIÉ & THOMAS ZIEGLER 2012. A new species of the genus Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 (Squamata: Colubridae) from northern Vietnam, southern China and central Laos. Zootaxa 3498: 45–62 - 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 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. 1922. A new snake from the Northern frontier of Assam. Records of the Indian Museum 24: 29-30 - 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. Wang, Kai; Jinlong Ren, Hongman Chen, Zhitong Lyu, Xianguang Guo Ke Jiang, Jinmin Chen, Jiatang Li, Peng Guo, Yingyong Wang, Jing Che 2020. The updated checklists of amphibians and reptiles of China. Biodiversity Science 28 (2): 189-218 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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