Oligodon hamptoni BOULENGER, 1918

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Hampton's Kukri Snake
Synonym	Oligodon hamptoni BOULENGER 1918 Oligodon hamptoni — SMITH 1943: 235 Oligodon hamptoni — DOWLING & JENNER 1988 Oligodon hamptoni — DAVID & VOGEL 2012 Oligodon hamptoni — WALLACH et al. 2014: 498 Oligodon hamptoni — NGUYEN et al. 2020
Distribution	Myanmar [= Burma] (Kachin, Sagaing), 300-1500 m elevation [fide WALLACH, pers. comm.], China (Yunnan) Type locality: "Mogok, Upper Burma." [= Mogok, southeastern Sagaing Division, northern Myanmar, 22˚55'N, 96˚30'E, 300 m]
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.1.71, a 540 male (H. Hampton).
Diagnosis
Comment
Etymology	Named after Herbert Hampton, a friend of G.A. Boulenger, who inferred in his description that the holotypes of the snake was collected by Hampton.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1918. Description of a new snake of the genus Oligodon from Upper Burma. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1918: 9-10 - get paper here DAVID, PATRICK & GERNOT VOGEL 2012. A new species of the genus Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 (Squamata: Colubridae) from Pulau Nias, Indonesia. Zootaxa 3201: 58–68 - get paper here DAVID, PATRICK; TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN, TAO THIEN NGUYEN, KE JIANG, TIANBO CHEN, ALEXANDRE TEYNIÉ & THOMAS ZIEGLER 2012. A new species of the genus Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 (Squamata: Colubridae) from northern Vietnam, southern China and central Laos. Zootaxa 3498: 45–62 - 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 Lee JL, Yang J-H, Yushchenko P, Poyarkov Jr NA 2021. Rediscovery and distribution extension of the rare Kukri Snake, Oligodon hamptoni Boulenger, 1918 (Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae), with the first record of this species from China. Herpetozoa 34: 13-21 - 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 Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-Region. Reptilia and Amphibia. 3 (Serpentes). Taylor and Francis, London. 583 pp. 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. Wang K, Lyu ZT, Wang J, Qi S, Che J 2022. Updated Checklist and Zoogeographic Division of the Reptilian Fauna of Yunnan Province, China. Biodiversity Science 30 (4): 21326, 1–31 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/499839812240622/ Google images

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