Oligodon cyclurus

Cantor's Kukri Snake
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Oligodon
Species:	O. cyclurus
Binomial name
Oligodon cyclurus (Cantor, 1839)
Synonyms
Coronella cyclura CANTOR 1839 Coronella violacea CANTOR 1839 Simotes bicatenatus GÜNTHER 1864 Simotes cochinchinensis GÜNTHER 1864 Simotes brevicauda STEINDACHNER 1867 Simotes bicatenatus — ANDERSON 1871 Simotes bicatenatus — STOLICZKA 1873 Simotes cyclurus — BOULENGER 1890 Simotes cyclurus — WALL 1908 Simotes albocinctus dorsolateralis WALL 1909 (fide WAGNER, pers. comm.) Simotes albocinctus var. dorsolateralis — WALL 1910 Holarchus cyclurus — SMITH 1920 Oligodon purpurascens WALL 1923 (non SCHLEGEL) Simotes smithi WERNER 1925 (fide SMITH 1928) Holarchus purpurascens — COCHRAN 1930 Oligodon cyclurus — SMITH 1943: 202 Oligodon dorsolateralis — TAYLOR 1965 Rhynchocalamus violaceus Olygodon [sic] cyclurus — SCHULZ 1988 Oligodon dorsolateralis — DAS 1996: 58 Oligodon dorsolateralis — CHAN-ARD et al. 1999: 34 Oligodon dorsolateralis — PAUWELS et al. 2002 Oligodon cyclurus — GREEN et al. 2010 Oligodon cyclurus — DAVID et al. 2011 Oligodon cyclurus — WALLACH et al. 2014

Oligodon cyclurus (Cantor's kukri snake) is a species of snake found in Asia. It was first described by Theodore Cantor in 1839.

Distribution

India (Assam), Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China (Yunnan).

Oligodon cyclurus dorsolateralis: Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), India (Assam).

References

• Boulenger, George A. (1890). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
• Cantor, T. E. 1839 Spicilegium serpentium indicorum [parts 1 and 2]. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 7: 31–34, 49–55.
• Das, I. (1996). Biogeography of the Reptiles of South Asia. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida.
• Grossmann, W. (1992). Beitrag zur Biologie der Kukri-Natter Oligodon cyclurus smithi (WERNER, 1925). Sauria 14 (2): 3–10.

External links

• Oligodon cyclurus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database