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Found a New Snake – Is It Oligodon inornatus?

Here it looks almost like Ptyas korros, but, the head is very small and the eyes - not so big.

This one is interesting… I found it at the top of a small limestone mountain. It’s like a keelback, and like a Ptyas korros. A juvenile. Green – dark green on top – solid pattern, no fluctuation. Bottom is dark grey. It’s about 1 foot long. Will get some photos and video and put them up as soon as I get the camera back from my wife!

Ok, below are pics – and I’ll get a video up on Youtube in a few…

It’s like a skinny yellow bellied water snake with a dark grey belly, not yellow.

 

Have a look at the video at Youtube (embedded below in a few minutes) and see if you can figure it out…

Gerwot from Germany said it was in the genus Oligodon. That seems right on. He showed me how to do a scale count and I got 15′s. If this is the Oligodon inornatus it might be a new snake for this area. Some lit has the range as northern Thailand and southeastern Thailand. No idea what southeastern Thailand refers to. Here’s a grab from the PDF referencing the snakes range, and addressing some mistakes in a printed book about snakes…


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4 Responses to “Found a New Snake – Is It Oligodon inornatus?”

  1. Ruxs (Rupert) says:

    Has a snout built for burrowing and it reminds me of a kukri snake. Probobly is a rare subspecies from the area – I would love to find something as strange as that!

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