Oligodon taeniolatus

Streaked Kukri Snake
	Oligodon taeniolatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Oligodon
Species:	O. taeniolatus
Binomial name
	Oligodon taeniolatus; (Jerdon, 1853)

Streaked Kukri Snake (Oligodon taeniolatus) is a species of nonvenomous snake found in Asia. It is also known as the Variegated Kukri or the Russell's Kukri. The IUCN lists the species as least concern.^[1]

Taxonomy

The species was first described by the British physician and zoologist Thomas C. Jerdon in 1853 as Coronella taeniolata.^[2]

There are two subspecies:^[2]

Oligodon taeniolatus taeniolatus (Jerdon 1853)
Oligodon taeniolatus fasciatus (Günther 1864)

Distribution

India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, S. Turkmenistan, E. Iran, Afghanistan, Bangladesh (Sub-species: fasciatus).

Literature

Bauer, A.M. 2003 On the status of the name Oligodon taeniolatus (Jerdon, 1853) and its long-ignored senior synonym and secondary homonym, Oligodon taeniolatus (Daudin, 1803). Hamadryad 27: 205–213.
Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
Dotsenko I B 1984 Morphological characters and ecological peculiarities of Oligodon taeniolatus (Serpentes, Colubridae). Vestnik Zoologii 1984 (4): 23-26
Jerdon,T.C. 1853 Catalogue of the Reptiles inhabiting the Peninsula of India. Part 2. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal xxii: 522-534 [1853]
Wall, Frank 1921 Ophidia Taprobanica or the Snakes of Ceylon. Colombo Mus. (H. R. Cottle, govt. printer), Colombo. xxii, 581 pages

References

^ Papenfuss, T., Shafiei Bafti, S., Ananjeva, N. & Orlov, N. 2010. Oligodon taeniolatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T164701A5918964. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T164701A5918964.en. Accessed on 03 June 2022.
^ ^a ^b Oligodon taeniolatus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database

External links

http://members.fortunecity.com/ukp001/naja/colubridae/oligodon_taeniolatus.htm
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[IUCN-1] Papenfuss, T., Shafiei Bafti, S., Ananjeva, N. & Orlov, N. 2010. Oligodon taeniolatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T164701A5918964. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T164701A5918964.en. Accessed on 03 June 2022.

[RDB-2] Oligodon taeniolatus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database

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