v11i1.280

Submitted date: 24 April 2022
Accepted date: 14 May 2022
Published date: 23 May 2022
Pp. 44

A confirmed record of Russell’s kukri (Oligodon russelius) from Bangladesh

A.I. Barkat & M.F. Rabbe1*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: fazlerabbedu@gmail.com

Oligodon russelius (Daudin, 1803) is closely allied to O. arnensis (Shaw, 1802) and distributed in the central, eastern and northern parts of India. The existing literature on the herpetofauna of Bangladesh provide few reports of O. arnensis, but O. arnensis is confined to southern India and Bandera et al. (2022) assigned northern records to the resurrected O. russelius, with a range limit depicted in India near the border with Bangladesh. Therefore, the previous records from Bangladesh presumably represent O. russelius.

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