小頭蛇屬

游蛇科的一属爬行动物

小頭蛇屬學名Oligodon)是蛇亞目游蛇科下的一個蛇,主要分布於亞洲南亞東南亞等地區。

小頭蛇屬
錨斑小頭蛇 Oligodon affinis
科學分類 編輯
界: 動物界 Animalia
門: 脊索動物門 Chordata
綱: 爬蟲綱 Reptilia
目: 有鱗目 Squamata
亞目: 蛇亞目 Serpentes
科: 游蛇科 Colubridae
亞科: 黃頷蛇亞科 Colubrinae
屬: 小頭蛇屬 Oligodon
Fitzinger, 1826
異名
  • Myanmarelfakhari Hoser, 2014
  • Olygodon
  • Sinoelfakhari Hoser, 2014

1826年,奧地利動物學家利奧波德·費卿格根據德國動物學家海因里希·博伊厄未發表的手稿建立了小頭蛇屬,該屬是游蛇科內所轄物種最多的屬之一,目前已被描述80餘種。小頭蛇的上頜骨齒扁平而寬大,後緣具有獨特的反曲形鋒利刃面,類似廓爾喀戰士所持的彎刀,故其英文名為「Kukri snake」。擁有這種鋒利的彎刀狀牙齒,小頭蛇在取食較大的爬行動物的卵時,可以切破蛋殼,從中吸取蛋液;在捕獵體型較大無法吞食的兩棲動物時,該屬的一些成員會切開兩棲動物的腹部,取食其內臟。[1]

分類

截止2022年6月4日,根據reptile-database中的數據,本屬包含88種:[2]

參考文獻

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  2. ^ Reptarium.cz Reptile Database 中的 Oligodon
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  6. ^ Zeeshan A. Mirza, Virender Kumar Bhardwaj and Harshil Patel. 2021. A New Species of Snake of the Genus Oligodon Boie in Fitzinger, 1826 (Reptilia, Serpentes) from the Western Himalayas. Evolutionary Systematics. 5(2): 335-345. DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.5.72564
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  9. ^ Olivier S. G. Pauwels, Henning Larsen, Winai Suthanthangjai, Patrick David and Montri Sumontha. 2017. A New Kukri Snake (Colubridae: Oligodon) from Hua Hin District, and the First record of O. deuvei from Thailand. Zootaxa. 4291(3); 531–548. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4291.3.6
  10. ^ Abhijit Das, David J. Gower, Surya Narayanan, Saunak Pal, Bitupan Boruah, Sanjay Magar, Sanjib Das, Soumabrata Moulick and V. Deepak. 2022. Rediscovery and Systematics of the rarely encountered Blue-bellied Kukri Snake (Oligodon melaneus Wall, 1909) from Assam, India. Zootaxa. 5138(4); 417-430. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5138.4.4
  11. ^ Montri Sumontha, Kirati Kunya, Siriwat Dangsri and Olivier S. G. Pauwels. 2017. Oligodon saiyok, A New Limestone-dwelling Kukri Snake (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Kanchanaburi Province, western Thailand. Zootaxa. 4294(3); 316–328. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4294.3.2
  12. ^ Parinya Pawangkhanant, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Harry Ward-Smith, Rupert Grassby-Lewis, Montri Sumontha, Nikita S. Kliukin, Sabira S. Idiiatullina, Alexei V. Trofimets, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom and Justin L. Lee. 2024. A New Species of Karst-associated Kukri Snake (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae: Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826) from southern Thailand. Vertebrate Zoology. 74: 359-379. DOI: 10.3897/vz.74.e112132
  13. ^ AA Thasun Amarasinghe, D.M.S. Suranjan Karunarathna, Patrick D. Campbell and Ivan Ineich. 2015. Systematics and Ecology of Oligodon sublineatus Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854, An Endemic Snake of Sri Lanka, including the Designation of A Lectotype. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 91(1): 71-80. DOI: 10.3897/zse.91.4971
  14. ^ Patrick David, Sjon Hauser and Gernot Vogel. 2022. A New Species of the Genus Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 (Reptilia: Colubridae) from southern Laos. TAPROBANICA. 11(1); 12–24. DOI: 10.47605/tapro.v11i1.273
  15. ^ Sanjaya K. Bandara; S.R. Ganesh; A. Suneth Kanishka; A. Dineth Danushka; Vivek R. Sharma; Patrick D. Campbell; Ivan Ineich; Gernot Vogel and A.A. Thasun Amarasinghe. 2022. Taxonomic Composition of the Oligodon arnensis (Shaw 1802) Species Complex (Squamata: Colubridae) with the Description of A New Species from India. Herpetologica. DOI: 10.1655/Herpetologica-D-21-00026
  16. ^ Amarasinghe, Sujan M.Henkanaththegedara, Patrick D.Campbell, Awal Riyanto, Jakob Hallermann & Gernot Vogel, 2021