''Oligodon cyclurus'' (Cantor's kukri snake) is a species of

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found in

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. It was first described by

Theodore Cantor Theodore Edward (Theodor Edvard) Cantor (1809–1860) was a Danish physician, zoologist and botanist. Born to a Danish Jewish family, his mother was a sister of Nathaniel Wallich. Cantor worked for the British East India Company, and made natural ...

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

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''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.

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