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Oligodon jintakunei PAUWELS, WALLACH, DAVID & CHANHOME, 2002

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymOligodon jintakunei PAUWELS, WALLACH, DAVID & CHANHOME 2002
Oligodon jintakunei — WALLACH et al. 2014: 488
Oligodon jintakunei — NGUYEN et al. 2020 
DistributionS Thailand (Krabi)

Type locality: Krabi Province, Thailand.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: QSMI 385 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A species of the genus Oligodon, characterized by (1) a gracile and much elongate body with the head clearly distinct from the neck; (2) a dorsal body pattern consisting of 11 regularly spaced narrow whitish rings touching the ventrals on a dark brown background color; (3) 6 maxillary teeth, the last three ones much enlarged and laterally compressed; (4) internasals and prefrontals fused with one another on each side of the head; (5) high numbers of ventrals (189) and subcaudals (46 pairs); (6) 15 dorsal scale rows at midbody. This species differs from all other members of the genus by the combination of the six characters cited above. (Pauwels et al. 2002) 
CommentKnown only from a single specimen.

Abundance: Rare. 
EtymologyNamed after the collector, Piboon jintakune. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Chan-ard, T., Parr, J.W.K. & Nabhitabhata, J. 2015. A field guide to the reptiles of Thailand. Oxford University Press, NY, 352 pp. [see book reviews by Pauwels & Grismer 2015 and Hikida 2015 for corrections] - get paper here
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nguyen HN, Tran BV, Nguyen LH, Neang T, Yushchenko PV, Poyarkov NA. 2020. A new species of Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 from the Langbian Plateau, southern Vietnam, with additional information on Oligodon annamensis Leviton, 1953 (Squamata: Colubridae). PeerJ 8: e8332 - get paper here
  • Pauwels, O.S.G., Wallach, V., David, P. & Chanhome, L. 2002. A New Species of Oligodon (Serpentes, Colubridae) from Southern Peninsular Thailand. Natural History Journal of Chulalongkorn University, 2 (2): 7-18 - 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.
 
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