Oligodon cyclurus

Oligodon cyclurus (Cantor's kukri snake) is a species of snake found in Asia. It was first described by Theodore Cantor in 1839.^[3]

Cantor's Kukri Snake
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Oligodon
Species:	O. cyclurus
Binomial name
Oligodon cyclurus (Cantor, 1839)
Synonyms
Coronella cyclura CANTOR 1839 Coronella violacea CANTOR 1839 Simotes bicatenatus GÜNTHER 1864 Simotes cochinchinensis GÜNTHER 1864 Simotes brevicauda STEINDACHNER 1867 Simotes bicatenatus — ANDERSON 1871 Simotes bicatenatus — STOLICZKA 1873 Simotes cyclurus — BOULENGER 1890 Simotes cyclurus — WALL 1908 Simotes albocinctus dorsolateralis WALL 1909 (fide WAGNER, pers. comm.) Simotes albocinctus var. dorsolateralis — WALL 1910 Holarchus cyclurus — SMITH 1920 Oligodon purpurascens WALL 1923 (non SCHLEGEL) Simotes smithi WERNER 1925 (fide SMITH 1928) Holarchus purpurascens — COCHRAN 1930 Oligodon cyclurus — SMITH 1943: 202 Oligodon dorsolateralis — TAYLOR 1965 Rhynchocalamus violaceus Olygodon [sic] cyclurus — SCHULZ 1988 Oligodon dorsolateralis — DAS 1996: 58 Oligodon dorsolateralis — CHAN-ARD et al. 1999: 34 Oligodon dorsolateralis — PAUWELS et al. 2002 Oligodon cyclurus — GREEN et al. 2010 Oligodon cyclurus — DAVID et al. 2011 Oligodon cyclurus — WALLACH et al. 2014[2]

Distribution

India (Assam), Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China (Yunnan).

Oligodon cyclurus dorsolateralis: Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), India (Assam).