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    Species Accepted

    Oligodon venustus (Jerdon, 1853)

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      3 results
      Beautiful Kukri Snake
      Jerdon's Kukri Snake
      神女小頭蛇 Chinese

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      15 results
      Wall, F. (1919). Notes on a collection of Snakes made in the Nilgiri Hills and the adjacent Wynaad. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 26: 552-584.
      Sharma, R. C. (2004). Handbook Indian Snakes. AKHIL BOOKS, New Delhi, 292 Pp.
      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.
      Green, Marc D.; Nikolai L. Orlov and Robert W. Murphy. (2010). Toward a Phylogeny of the Kukri Snakes, Genus Oligodon. Asian Herpetological Research 1 (1): 1-21.
      Palot, M. J. (2015). A checklist of reptiles of Kerala, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(13): 8010–8022.
      Jerdon, T. C. (1854). Catalogue of the Reptiles inhabiting the Peninsula of India. Part 2. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal Xxii: 522-534 [1853].
      Jan, G. (1865). Iconographie générale des ophidiens. 11. Livraison. J.B. Bailière et Fils, Paris.
      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.
      Ganesh, S. R.; Subramanian Bhupathy, Patrick David, N. Sathishkumar, G. Srinivas. (2014). Snake Fauna of High Wavy Mountains, Western Ghats, India: Species Richness, Status, and Distribution Pattern. Russ. J. Herpetol. 21 (1): 53-64.
      Bhupathy, Subramanian, & Sathishkumar, N. (2013). Status of reptiles in Meghamalai and its environs, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 5 (15): 4953-4961.

      Citation

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