小头蛇属

游蛇科的一属爬行动物
(重定向自Oligodon

小头蛇属学名Oligodon)是蛇亚目游蛇科下的一个蛇,主要分布于亚洲南亚东南亚等地区。

小头蛇属
锚斑小头蛇 Oligodon affinis
科学分类 编辑
界: 动物界 Animalia
门: 脊索动物门 Chordata
纲: 爬行纲 Reptilia
目: 有鳞目 Squamata
亚目: 蛇亚目 Serpentes
科: 游蛇科 Colubridae
亚科: 黄颔蛇亚科 Colubrinae
属: 小头蛇属 Oligodon
Fitzinger, 1826
异名
  • Myanmarelfakhari Hoser, 2014
  • Olygodon
  • Sinoelfakhari Hoser, 2014

1826年,奥地利动物学家利奥波德·费卿格根据德国动物学家海因里希·博伊厄未发表的手稿建立了小头蛇属,该属是游蛇科内所辖物种最多的属之一,目前已被描述80余种。小头蛇的上颌骨齿扁平而宽大,后缘具有独特的反曲形锋利刃面,类似廓尔喀战士所持的弯刀,故其英文名为“Kukri snake”。拥有这种锋利的弯刀状牙齿,小头蛇在取食较大的爬行动物的卵时,可以切破蛋壳,从中吸取蛋液;在捕猎体型较大无法吞食的两栖动物时,该属的一些成员会切开两栖动物的腹部,取食其内脏。[1]

分类

编辑

截止2022年6月4日,根据reptile-database中的数据,本属包含88种:[2]

参考文献

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  1. ^ 钱天宇. 海南岛发现小头蛇属一新种. 中国两栖类. [2022-06-04]. 
  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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  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
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  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
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