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Oligodon joynsoni (SMITH, 1917)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Gray Kukri Snake, Joynson’s Kukri Snake
G: Joynsons Kukrinatter
Chinese: 泰北小头蛇 
SynonymSimotes longicauda joynsoni SMITH 1917: 276
Oligodon joynsoni — SMITH 1943: 218
Oligodon joynsoni — TAYLOR 1965: 781
Oligodon cinereus swinhonis — TAYLOR 1965: 758
Oligodon cinereus multifasciatus — TAYLOR 1965: 760
Oligodon joynsoni — COX et al. 1998: 58
Oligodon joynsoni — DAVID et al. 2011
Oligodon joynsoni — WALLACH et al. 2014: 498
Oligodon joynsoni — DAVID et al. 2022 
DistributionN/W Thailand, Laos, China (Yunnan)

Type locality: N Thailand, Muang Ngao or Muang Ngau, 18°45'27N, 99°58'42 E (see map in DAVID et al. 2011).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.1.4.23 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A medium-sized species (760 mm. in length); bodily configuration similar to cyclurus; eight supralabials; a subocular and a preocular present; scales smooth in 17 rows at middle of body, 15 shortly behind middle; ventrals feebly angulate; dark purplish brown with strong black reticulations forming more or less distinct but broken crossbars, each alternate one with a transversely placed black spot; venter red in life, heavily marked with rectangular black spots; a narrow chevron terminating on head; a crescent spot across eyes and snout; two temporal bars. Ventrals, 187-197; subcaudals, 40-50. (Taylor 1965: 781)


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CommentDistribution: Erroneously reported from Vietnam and China. Specimens from Guangxi are likely to be O. nagao.

Synonymy: partly after JIANG et al. 2012.

Illustration: in CHAN-ARD et al. 2015, although the drawings of Oligodon joynsoni and O. taeniatus have been mixed up (fide PAUWELS & GRISMER 2015). 
EtymologyNamed after H. W. Joynson who collected the holotype (1917). 
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
  • Cox, Merel J.; Van Dijk, Peter Paul; Jarujin Nabhitabhata & Thirakhupt,Kumthorn 1998. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Ralph Curtis Publishing, 144 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
  • David, Patrick; Sjon Hauser & Gernot Vogel 2022. A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS Oligodon FITZINGER, 1826 (REPTILIA: COLUBRIDAE) FROM SOUTHERN LAOS TAPROBANICA 11 (1): 12-24 - 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
  • Hauser, Sjon; Ton Smits, Johan van Rooijen 2022. Records of Body Bending Behavior (‘Liana Crypsis’) in Five Snake Species in Thailand and One in Spain Russian Journal of Herpetology 28 (2): 65-75
  • JIANG, Ke; Tianbo CHEN, Patrick DAVID, Gernot VOGEL, Mian HOU, Zhiyong YUAN, Yuanjun MENG and Jing CHE 2012. On the Occurrence of Oligodon joynsoni (Smith, 1917) in China (Squamata: Colubridae). Asian Herpetological Research 3 (4): 316–321 - 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
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