Oligodon perkinsi (TAYLOR, 1925)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Perkin's Short-headed Snake
Synonym	Holarchus perkinsi TAYLOR 1925: 108 Oligodon perkinsi — LEVITON 1963: 476 Oligodon perkinsi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 491
Distribution	Philippines (Culion Islands, Busuanga) Type locality: at Culion, Culion island.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MCZ 25725. Originally EHT, No. 1164, September, 1923, by Granville A. Perkins.
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Comment	Not listed by BROWN & ALCALA 1970, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 38 (6): 105-130. Abundance: only known from 3 specimens (Ssupsup & Carestia 2020).
Etymology	Named after the collector of the type, Granville Akers Perkins (1891-1985), a chemist, who was on the staff of the Bureau of Science, Philippines, during Taylor's work there.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Leviton, A.E. 1963. Contributions to a review of Philippine snakes. I. The snakes of the genus Oligodon. Philippine J. Sci. 91 (4): 459-484 [1962] - get paper here Shea, G.M. 2012. (Book review) The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles by B. Beolens et al Copeia 2012 (3): 578-582. - get paper here Supsup CE, Carestia Jr UV 2020. Rediscovery, new island record, and clarification of the geographic distribution of Oligodon perkinsi (Taylor, 1925) (Squamata, Colubridae), a poorly known endemic snake from the Palawan faunal region of western Philippines. Check List 16(4): 877-881 - get paper here Taylor, E.H. 1944. Present location of certain herpetological and other type specimens. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 30 (1): 117-187. - get paper here Taylor,E.H. 1925. Additions to the herpetological fauna of the Philippines, IV. Philippine J. Sci. 26: 97-111 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. Weinell, Jeffrey L.; Errol Hooper, Alan E. Leviton, Rafe M. Brown 2019. Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (4) 66 (1): 1-49 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/389339766623961/ Google images

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