Oligodon splendidus (GÜNTHER, 1875)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Splendid Kukri Snake
Synonym	Simotes splendidus GÜNTHER 1875: 231 Simotes splendidus — WALL 1908: 781 Oligodon splendidus — WALL 1925 Oligodon splendidus — SMITH 1943: 214 Oligodon splendida Oligodon splendidus — ZUG et al. 1998 Oligodon splendidus — GREEN et al. 2010 Oligodon splendidus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 503
Distribution	Myanmar (= Burma)
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Type: BMNH 1946.1.4.8 (and possibly additional specimens).
Diagnosis
Comment	Listed as Oligodon splendidus GÜNTHER 1861 by Frank & Ramus 1995.
References	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 Boulenger, George A. 1894. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. British Mus. (Nat. Hist.), London, xi, 382 pp. - 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 Evans, G.H. 1905. Simotes splendidus. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 16: 362 - 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 Günther,A. 1875. Second report on collections of Indian Reptiles obtained bv the British Museum. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1875: 224-234 - get paper here 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 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. Venning, F.W.E. 1914. Simotes splendidus, Günth., in Burma. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 23: 164 - get paper here Wall,F. 1908. Remarks on some recently acquired snakes. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 18: 778-784 - 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. Zug, George R.;Win, Htun;Thin, Thin;Min, Than Zaw;Lhon, Win Zaw;Kyaw, Kyaw 1998. Herpetofauna of the Chatthin Wildlife Sanctuary, north-central Myanmar with preliminary observations of their Natural History. Hamadryad 23 (2): 111-120 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.calacademy.org/research/herpetology/myanmar/checklist_snakes… http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/bioinformatics/lizards/images/macclive1.htm Google images

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