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Issue: Vol. 1939 No. 1: 21 Nov. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-11-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1939.1.3
Page range: 19–37
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of the genus Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 (Squamata: Colubridae) from southern Vietnam and Cambodia

Département Systématique et Évolution, USM 602 Taxonomie-collection – Reptiles & Amphibiens, Case Postale 30, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
Society for Southeast Asian Herpetology, Im Sand 3, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany
Département des Vertébrés Récents, Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Rue Vautier 29, B-1000 Brussels, BELGIUM
Reptilia Oligodon Oligodon saintgironsi spec. nov. Oligodon ocellatus Oligodon analepticos taxonomy Vietnam Cambodia

Abstract

A new species of the Oligodon cyclurus-group is described from southern Vietnam and Cambodia, Oligodon saintgironsi spec. nov. It differs from other members of this group by the combination of 19 scale rows at the neck, 17 or 18 dorsal scale rows at midbody, a long and robust tail, very long and thin hemipenes, and a blotched pattern. It is most similar to Oligodon ocellatus (Morice, 1875). Oligodon analepticos Campden-Main, 1970 is confirmed as a synonym of Oligodon ocellatus. A key to the Oligodon cyclurus-group is provided.

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