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Lycodon kundui SMITH, 1943

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymLycodon kundui SMITH 1943: 260
Lycodon kundui — DOWLING & JENNER 1988
Lycodon kundui — LANZA 1999: 95
Lycodon kundui — WALLACH et al. 2014: 402 
DistributionMyanmar (= Burma) (Pegu Division)

Type locality: “Gyobyu, Taikkyi Township, Pegu district.”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.1.13.68, a 225 mm specimen (Kundu). 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1057 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentAbundance: Only known from the type specimen, collected before 1943. This is one of the species called “lost” and “rediscovered” by Lindken et al. 2024. 
Etymologynamed after “Dr. Kundu of the Harcourt Butler Institute, Rangoon” who provided the type specimen. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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
  • Janssen HY, Pham CT, Ngo HT, Le MD, Nguyen TQ, Ziegler T 2019. A new species of Lycodon Boie, 1826 (Serpentes, Colubridae) from northern Vietnam. ZooKeys 875: 1-29 - get paper here
  • Lanza,B. 1999. A new species of Lycodon from the Philippines, with a key to the genus (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae). Tropical Zoology 12: 89-104 - get paper here
  • Lindken T.; Anderson, C. V., Ariano-Sánchez, D., Barki, G., Biggs, C., Bowles, P., Chaitanya, R., Cronin, D. T., Jähnig, S. C., Jeschke, J. M., Kennerley, R. J., Lacher, T. E. Jr., Luedtke, J. A., Liu, C., Long, B., Mallon, D., Martin, G. M., Meiri, 2024. What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species? Global Change Biology, 30: 1-18 - 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.
  • 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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