I found another of these snakes today. They are quite hard to categorize. I’ll do scale counts tomorrow and see what I get. This snake I pulled out slowly from a hole he was half-buried in. We were up about 200 meters elevation on a limestone hill.
Oligodon _______ (my other page on this snake with photos and video).
There are a couple of biologists interested in looking at the snake, so I may have an exact name if they are able to get here quickly enough before I release it.
Anybody want to guess what it is? It looks, to me, exactly like an Oligodon kheriensis – a very rare snake, not known for Thailand at all. It’s also called the Coral Kukri Snake. Ok, mine is not the same color, but everything else appearance wise – looks the same, just in an olive green hue. It also looks very much like Oligodon inornatus. Color is almost right on, but the ventrals are different.
Anyway – excited to see the snake in the light and get some good photos and videos of this snake.
Update: here is a complete rundown of the snake with new photos, and scale counts…