Oligodon woodmasoni (SCLATER, 1891)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Simotes woodmasoni SCLATER 1891: 235 Oligodon woodmasoni _ WALL 1923 Oligodon woodmasoni — SMITH 1943: 218 Oligodon woodmasoni — DAS 1996: 58 Oligodon woodmasoni — VIJAYAKUMAR & DAVID 2006 Oligodon woodmasoni — WALLACH et al. 2014: 505
Distribution	India: Nicobar Islands Type locality: Nicobar Islands [see comment]
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: ZSI 8459, ZSI 12547
Diagnosis
Comment	Distribution: The original description by Sclater mentioned 2 specimens, one from the Andamans and one from the Nicobars. Reported from but not listed for the Andaman Islands by DAS 1999.
Etymology	named after the collector of the types, Mr. Wood-Mason.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Chandramouli, S. R. 2023. Distribution Patterns of Snakes and Conservation Importance of Islands in the Andaman and Nicobar Archipelago, Bay of Bengal, India. In: Lillywhite & Martins, eds., Islands and snakes, vol. II. Oxford University Press, p. 121 ff - get paper here Das, I. 1999. Biogeography of the amphibians and reptiles of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. In: Ota,H. (ed) Tropical Island herpetofauna..., Elsevier, pp. 43-77 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 Sclater,W.L. 1891. Notes on a collection of snakes in the Indian Museum, with descriptions of several new species. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal LX: 230-250 - get paper here Sharma, R. C. 2004. Handbook Indian Snakes. AKHIL BOOKS, New Delhi, 292 pp. 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. Vijayakumar, S. P. and Patrick David 2006. Taxonomy, Natural History, and Distribution of the Snakes of the Nicobar Islands (INDIA), based on new materials and with an Emphasis on endemic species. Russ. J. Herpetol. 13 (1): 11 – 40 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.
External links	IUCN Red List http://www.andamannicobarsnakes.com/Oligodonwoodmasoni.html http://gto.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pingleto/herps/tuataras.html Google images

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