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Oligodon annamensis LEVITON, 1953

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Leviton’s kukri snake, Annam Kukri Snake
Vietnamese: Răn khiêm trung bo
Russian: Annamskiy oligodon 
SynonymOligodon annamensis LEVITON 1953
Oligodon annamensis — GREEN et al. 2010
Oligodon annamensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 483
Oligodon annamensis — NGUYEN et al. 2020 
DistributionVietnam (Lam Dong, Dak Lak, Annam), Cambodia, Thailand (Chanthaburi)

Type locality: Station Agricale, Blao, Haut Donai, Annam (Vietnam) [= Bao Loc, Lam Dong Province]  
Reproductionoviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: USNM 90408, young female 
Diagnosis 
CommentStatus: Not Evaluated. 
EtymologyThe specific name ‘‘annamensis’’ is a Latin adjective derived from ‘‘Annam’’, the historical name of Truong Son Mountains and central Vietnam. 
References
  • Das, I. 2010. A Field Guide to the Reptiles of Southeast Asia. New Holland, London. 376 pp. [book review in Sauria 33 (3): 51, and Russ. J. Herp. 18: 325] - get paper here
  • 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 - get paper here
  • Leviton A. E. 1960. Notes on the second specimen of the snake Oligodon annamensis Leviton. Wasmann Journal of Biology 18: 305–307 - get paper here
  • Leviton, Alan E. 1953. A new snake of the genus Oligodon from Annam. J. Washington Acad. Sci. 43 (12): 422-424 - get paper here
  • Neang, Thy and Seiha Hun. 2013. First record of Oligodon annamensis Leviton, 1953 (Squamata: Colubridae) from the Cardamom Mountains of southwest Cambodia. Herpetology Notes 6: 271-273.
  • NEANG, THY; L. LEE GRISMER & JENNIFER C. DALTRY 2012. A new species of kukri snake (Colubridae: Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826) from the Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary, Cardamom Mountains, southwest Cambodia. Zootaxa 3388: 41–55 - get paper here
  • Nguyen HN, Tran BV, Nguyen LH, Neang T, Yushchenko PV, Poyarkov NA. 2020. A new species of Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 from the Langbian Plateau, southern Vietnam, with additional information on Oligodon annamensis Leviton, 1953 (Squamata: Colubridae). PeerJ 8: e8332 - get paper here
  • Nguyen, S.V., Ho, C.T. and Nguyen, T.Q. 2009. Herpetofauna of Vietnam. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 768 pp.
  • VASSILIEVA, ANNA B.; PETER GEISSLER, EDUARD A. GALOYAN, NIKOLAY Jr A. POYARKOV, ROBERT WAYNE VAN DEVENDER, WOLFGANG BÖHME 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 - get paper here
  • Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
  • Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
 
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