Oligodon tuani NGUYEN, LE, VO & MURPHY, 2022
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Oligodon tuani
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| Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Langbian kukri snake Vietnamese: Rắn khiếm Langbian |
| Synonym | Oligodon tuani NGUYEN, LE, VO & MURPHY 2022: 557 |
| Distribution | Vietnam (Lam Dong) Type locality: near Cam Ly Stream, Da Lat City, Lam Dong Province, Vietnam (coordinates 11°56’54”N, 108°24’60”E; elevation 1490 m a.s.l.) |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype. ITBCZ 7899, subadult male, collected by Tuan Minh Nguyen on 15 September 2020 (Figs. 2&3). Paratypes. ITBCZ 7944, adult male, collected on 15 October 2020 by Tuan Minh Nguyen, coordinates 11°57’36”N, 108°23’30”E, elevation 1431 m a.s.l., from Cam Ly Road, vicinity of Da Lat City, Lam Dong Province, Vietnam; ITBCZ 7868, subadult female, collected on 12 September 2020 by Tuan Minh Nguyen, coordinates 12°01’02”N, 108°29’28”E; elevation 1520 m a.s.l., from Da Sar, Lac Duong District, vicinity of Da Lat City, Lam Dong Province, Vietnam; and ITBCZ 8215, adult female, collected from Ward no. 10, Dalat City, Lam Dong Province, Vietnam, coordinates 11°55’56”N, 108°26’58”E, elevation 1440 m a.s.l., on 24 March 2022 by Tuan Minh Nguyen (Fig. 4). |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Oligodon tuani sp. nov. can be distinguished from its congeners by a combination of the following morphological characters: (1) large size in adults (TL ≤ 888 mm); (2) 19 dorsal scale rows at neck and midbody and 15 rows before vent; (3) TaL/TL ratio 0.184 in adult male and 0.123 in adult female; (4) ventrals 173–179 in males and 187–193 in females; (5) subcaudals 58 or 59 in males and 44 or 45 in females; (6) presubocular present; (7) 8 supralabials, fourth and fifth entering orbit; (8) cloacal plate undivided; (9) 10 maxillary teeth, posterior three enlarged; (10) vertebral stripe present; (11) temporal streak present but faint and interrupted; (12) long and deeply forked hemipenes, extending to 25th subcaudal, without spines and papillae but with small and transversal folds and distal calyces; and (13) 13–15+3–4 dorsal blotches. (Nguyen et al. 2022) |
| Comment | |
| Etymology | Named after Mr. Tuan Minh Nguyen (Lam Dong Province, Vietnam) in recognition for his contributions to the authors including the type series of the new species and many other important samples of reptiles in recent years. |
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