Oligodon jintakunei, also known commonly as Jintakune's kukri snake and the Krabi kukri snake, is a species of snake in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Thailand.
Etymology The specific name, jintakunei, is in honor of Thai herpetologist Piboon Jintakune.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Oligodon jintakunei, p. 134).
Geographic range O. jintakunei is found in southern peninsular Thailand, in Krabi Province.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of O. jintakunei is forest.
Description The holotype of O. jintakunei has a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of , plus a tail length of . Its coloration (in ethanol) is as follows. Dorsally, it is dark brown, with narrow whitish crossbands, 11 on the body, plus 3 on the tail. Ventrally, it is whitish. The top of the head is beige.Pauwels et al. (2002).
Behavior Although a forest-dwelling species, O. jintakunei is not arboreal, but instead it is terrestrial.
Reproduction O. jintakunei is oviparous.
References
Further reading Chan-ard T, Parr JWK, Nabhitabhata J (2015). A Field Guide to the Reptiles of Thailand. New York: Oxford University Press. 352 pp. (hardcover), (paperback). Pauwels OSG, Wallach V, David P, Chanhome L (2002). "A New Species of Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 (Serpentes, Colubridae) from Southern Peninsular Thailand". Natural History Journal of Chulalongkorn University 2 (2): 7–18. (Oligodon jintakunei, new species).
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