The streaked kukri snake (''Oligodon taeniolatus'') is a species of nonvenomous

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found in

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. It is also known as the variegated kukri or the Russell's kukri. The IUCN lists the species as least concern.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.

Taxonomy

The species was first described by the British physician and zoologist Thomas C. Jerdon in 1853 as ''Coronella taeniolata''. There are two subspecies: * ''Oligodon taeniolatus taeniolatus'' (Jerdon 1853) * ''Oligodon taeniolatus fasciatus'' (Günther 1864)

Distribution

India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, S. Turkmenistan, E. Iran, Afghanistan,

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(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: 522-534 853* Wall, Frank 1921 Ophidia Taprobanica or the Snakes of Ceylon. Colombo Mus. (H. R. Cottle, govt. printer), Colombo. xxii, 581 pages

References

External links

* http://members.fortunecity.com/ukp001/naja/colubridae/oligodon_taeniolatus.htm * http://www.indiansnakes.org/content/russells-kukri taeniolatus Reptiles of Afghanistan Reptiles of Pakistan Reptiles of Central Asia Reptiles described in 1853 {{Colubrids-stub