Oligodon
Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Colubroidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus:
Species (91):
O. affinis –
O. albocinctus –
O. ancorus –
O. annamensis –
O. annulifer –
O. arnensis –
O. barroni –
O. bitorquatus –
O. bivirgatus –
O. booliati –
O. brevicauda –
O. calamarius –
O. catenatus –
O. chinensis –
O. cicadophagus –
O. cinereus –
O. condaoensis –
O. cruentatus –
O. culaochamensis –
O. cyclurus –
O. deuvei –
O. dorsalis –
O. eberhardti –
O. erythrogaster –
O. erythrorhachis –
O. everetti –
O. fasciolatus –
O. forbesi –
O. formosanus –
O. hamptoni –
O. huahin –
O. inornatus –
O. jintakunei –
O. joynsoni –
O. juglandifer –
O. kampucheaensis –
O. kheriensis –
O. lacroixi –
O. lipipengi –
O. lungshenensis –
O. macrurus –
O. maculatus –
O. mcdougalli –
O. melaneus –
O. melanozonatus –
O. meyerinkii –
O. modestus –
O. moricei –
O. mouhoti –
O. nagao –
O. nikhili –
O. notospilus –
O. ocellatus –
O. octolineatus –
O. ornatus –
O. perkinsi –
O. petronellae –
O. phangan –
O. planiceps –
O. praefrontalis –
O. promsombuti –
O. propinquus –
O. pseudotaeniatus –
O. pulcherrimus –
O. purpurascens –
O. rostralis –
O. russelius –
O. saintgironsi –
O. saiyok –
O. signatus –
O. speleoserpens –
O. splendidus –
O. sublineatus –
O. taeniatus –
O. taeniolatus –
O. teyniei –
O. theobaldi –
O. tillacki –
O. tolaki –
O. torquatus –
O. transcaspicus –
O. travancoricus –
O. trilineatus –
O. tuani –
O. unicolor –
O. venustus –
O. vertebralis –
O. waandersi –
O. wagneri –
O. woodmasoni –
O. zhangfujii
Name
Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826
- Type species: Oligodon bitorquatus Boie, 1827, by monotypy.
Synonyms
- Calamaria Boie in Schlegel, 1826: 236
- Type species: Calamaria linnaei Boie, 1826.
- Simotes Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854: 624
- Type species: Coluber russellii Daudin, 1803.
- Holarchus Cope, 1886
- Type species: Simotes formosanus Günther, 1872.
- Tripeltis Cope, 1886
- Type species: Oligodon brevicauda Günther, 1862.
- Dicraulax Cope, 1893
- Type species: Holarchus trinolatus Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854.
References
Primary references
- Fitzinger, L. 1826. Neue Classification der Reptilien nach ihren natürlichen Verwandtschaften. Nebst einer Verwandtschafts-Tafel und einem Verzeichnisse der Reptilien-Sammlung des K. K. zoologischen Museum's zu Wien. J.G. Hübner: Wien. vii + 66 pp. BHL Reference page.
- Schlegel, H. 1826. Notice sur l'Erpétologie de I'ile de Java; par M Boié (Ouvrage manuscrit). Bulletin des Sciences Naturelles et de Géologie. 9(203): 233–240 BHL
Reference page. - Duméril, A.M.C., Bibron, G. & Duméril, A.H.A. 1854. Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome septième. Premiére partie, comprenant l'histoire des serpents venimeux. Librarie encyclopédique de Roret: Paris, France. i-xvi + 1–780 pp. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
- David, P.; Das, I.; Vogel, G. 2011. On some taxonomic and nomenclatural problems in Indian species of the genus Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 (Squamata: Colubridae). Zootaxa 2799: 1–14. Preview
- David, P.; Vogel, G. 2012. A new species of the genus Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 (Squamata: Colubridae) from Pulau Nias, Indonesia. Zootaxa, 3201: 58–68. Preview
- David, P., Nguyen, T.Q., Nguyen, T.T., Jiang, K., Chen, T.-B., Teynié, A. & Ziegler, T. 2012. A new species of the genus Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 (Squamata: Colubridae) from northern Vietnam, southern China and central Laos. Zootaxa 3498(1): 45–62. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3498.1.3
Reference page. - Vassilieva, A.B. et al. 2013: A new species of kukri snake (Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826; Squamata: Colubridae) from the Cat Tien National Park, southern Vietnam. Zootaxa 3702(3): 233–246. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3702.3.2 Reference page.
- Vassilieva, A.B. 2015. A new species of the genus Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 (Squamata: Colubridae) from coastal southern Vietnam. Zootaxa 4058(2): 211–226. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.2.4. Preview (PDF). Reference page.
- Nguyen, S.N., Nguyen, V.D.H., Le, S.H. & Murphy, R.W. 2016. A new species of kukri snake (Squamata: Colubridae: Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826) from Con Dao Islands, southern Vietnam. Zootaxa 4139(2): 261–273. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4139.2.9 Reference page.
- Nguyen, S.N., Nguyen, L.T., Nguyen, V.D.H., Phan, H.T., Jiang, K. & Murphy, R.W. 2017. A new species of the genus Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 (Squamata: Colubridae) from Cu Lao Cham Islands, central Vietnam. Zootaxa 4286(3): 333–346. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.3.2 Reference page.
- Pauwels, O.S.G., Larsen, H., Suthanthangjai, W., David, P. & Sumontha, M. 2017. A new kukri snake (Colubridae: Oligodon) from Hua Hin District, and the first record of O. deuvei from Thailand. Zootaxa 4291(3): 531–548. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4291.3.6 Reference page.
- Sumontha, M., Kunya, K., Dangsri, S. & Pauwels, O.S.G. 2017. Oligodon saiyok, a new limestone-dwelling kukri snake (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Kanchanaburi Province, western Thailand. Zootaxa 4294(3): 316–328. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4294.3.2 Reference page.
- Pauwels, O.S.G., Donbundit, N., Sumontha, M. & Meesook, W. 2025. Oligodon cicadophagus, a new kukri snake from southern peninsular Thailand (Squamata: Colubridae). Zootaxa 5569(2): 253–281. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5569.2.3 Reference page.
Links
- Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Oligodon . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 11 February 2025.
Vernacular names
- English: Kukri Snakes
- Türkçe: Kukri yılanı