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Oligodon catenatus (BLYTH, 1855)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Assam Kukri Snake
Chinese: 菱斑小头蛇 
SynonymCalamaria catenata BLYTH 1855: 287
Calamaria catenata — SCLATER 1891
Oligodon herberti BOULENGER 1905 (fideSMITH 1943)
Oligodon Herberti var. Eberhardti PELLEGRIN 1910
Oligodon herberti — WALL 1923: 467
Macrocalamus wongii FAN 1931
Oligodon eberhardti — POPE 1935
Oligodon Herberti Eberhardti — BOURRET 1935: 7
Oligodon catenatus — SMITH 1940
Oligodon catenata — SMITH 1943: 232
Oligodon catenatus — DAS 1996: 58
Rhynchocalamus eberhardti
Oligodon catenata — ZHAO 2006
Oligodon catenata — DAVID et al. 2011
Oligodon catenatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 495
Oligodon catenatus — NGUYEN et al. 2020
Oligodon catenatus — DAVID et al. 2022 
DistributionIndia (Mizoram etc.), Myanmar (= Burma), Vietnam, Cambodia, S China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Yunnan), Thailand, Laos

Type locality: “Khásya hills, or other upland territory” [= Assam]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: lost (Sang et al. 2009, Smith 1943) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Oligodon catenatus is very similar to, has been confused with, O. eberhardti (Thy and Nguyen 2012), but they differ by the absence of the loreal in O. catenatus (Pham et al. 2014). Among the 22 species of Oligodon known from Indo-China, the loreal is absent only in three species: O. catenatus (Blyth 1854), O. annamensis (Leviton 1953), and O. lacroixi (Angel and Bourret 1933); and it is facultatively absent in both O. mouhoti (Boulenger 1914) and O. macrurus (Angel 1927) [from Lalbiakzuala & Lalremsanga 2020] 
CommentSynonymy: Oligodon eberhardti has been renomved from the synonymy of O. catenata.

Oligodon herberti is supposed to have solid vertebral stripe. Oligodon eberhardti is supposed to have broken vertebral stripes. 
References
  • Blyth, EDWARD. 1855. Notices and descriptions of various reptiles, new or little known [part 2]. J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Calcutta, 23 (3): 287-302 [1854] - get paper here
  • Boulenger, George A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp. - get paper here
  • Bourret,R. 1935. Notes herpétologiques sur l'Indochine Française X. Les serpents de la station d’altitude du Tam-dao. Bull. Gen. Instr. Pub. Hanoi 8 (avril): 259-271 (1-13)
  • Chan-ard, T., Parr, J.W.K. & Nabhitabhata, J. 2015. A field guide to the reptiles of Thailand. Oxford University Press, NY, 352 pp. [see book reviews by Pauwels & Grismer 2015 and Hikida 2015 for corrections] - get paper here
  • DAVID, PATRICK; INDRANEIL DAS & GERNOT VOGEL 2011. On some taxonomic and nomenclatural problems in Indian species of the genus Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 (Squamata: Colubridae). Zootaxa 2799: 1–14 - get paper here
  • David, Patrick; Sjon Hauser & Gernot Vogel 2022. A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS Oligodon FITZINGER, 1826 (REPTILIA: COLUBRIDAE) FROM SOUTHERN LAOS TAPROBANICA 11 (1): 12-24 - get paper here
  • Dowling, H.G., & Jenner, J.V. 1988. Snakes of Burma: checklist of reported species and bibliography. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (76): 19 pp. - get paper here
  • GONG Shi-Ping; Markus Auer; ZHANG Ying-Yang; ZHONG Guo-Fang; ZENG Jin-Dong 2010. A New Record of Oligodon catenata in Guangdong Province,China. Chinese J. Zool. - get paper here
  • JIANG, Ke; Tianbo CHEN, Patrick DAVID, Gernot VOGEL, Mian HOU, Zhiyong YUAN, Yuanjun MENG and Jing CHE 2012. On the Occurrence of Oligodon joynsoni (Smith, 1917) in China (Squamata: Colubridae). Asian Herpetological Research 3 (4): 316–321 - get paper here
  • Lalbiakzuala & Lalremsanga HT. 2020. Rediscovery of Oligodon catenatus (Blyth, 1854) (Squamata: Colubridae) from India. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 14(3) [General Section]: 226-230
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