Oligodon mcdougalli WALL, 1905

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: McDougall's Kukri Snake
Synonym	Oligodon mcdougalli WALL 1905 Oligodon mcdougalli — SMITH 1943: 234 Oligodon mcdougalli — DAS & CHATURVEDI 1998 Oligodon mcdougalli — WALLACH et al. 2014: 489 Oligodon mcdougalli — NGUYEN et al. 2020
Distribution	Myanmar (= Burma) Type locality: “Sandarang, Burma” [for Sandoway, according to Smith 1943: 234, now Thandwe, Myanmar].
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BNHS = BNHM 963
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Comment
Etymology	Named after E. McDougall, who obtained the holotype.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Das, Indraneil;Chaturvedi, Naresh 1998. Catalogue of the herpetological types in the collection of the Bombay Natural History Society. Hamadryad 23 (2): 150-156 - get paper here Dowling H G; Jenner J V 1989. The snakes of Burma. 2. Rediscovery of the type specimen of Oligodon mcdougalli with a discussion of its relationships. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 86 (1): 46-49 - get paper here Dowling, H.G., & Jenner, J.V. 1988. Snakes of Burma: checklist of reported species and bibliography. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (76): 19 pp. - get paper here Lee JL, Yang J-H, Yushchenko P, Poyarkov Jr NA 2021. Rediscovery and distribution extension of the rare Kukri Snake, Oligodon hamptoni Boulenger, 1918 (Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae), with the first record of this species from China. Herpetozoa 34: 13-21 - 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 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. - get paper here Wall,F. 1905. Description of a new snake from Burma, Oligodon mcdougalli. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 16: 251-252 - 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.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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