Oligodon juglandifer

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Orthokaryota Cladus: Neokaryota Cladus: Scotokaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Superclassis*: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Oligodon juglandifer (Wall, 1909)

Holotype: BNHS 814B (ex-210), collected by Frank Wall.
Type locality: “neighbourhood of Darjeeling, about the Railway between the foot hills and Tindharia, i.e. at an altitude between about 500 and 2,800 feet”.

Oligodon lipipengi Jiang, Wang, Li, Ding, Ding & Che in Che et al., 2020 [synonymised by Patel, Bhardwaj, Thackeray, Campbell & Mirza (2025: 5)]

Wall, F. 1909. Notes on snakes from the neighbourhood of Darjeeling. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 19: 337–357.
Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, including the whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. Taylor and Francis: London. xii + 583 pp., 166 text figures. PDF Reference page.
Che, J., Jiang, K., Yan, F. & Zhang, Y.-P. 2020. 西藏两栖爬行动物 - 多样性与进化 [Amphibians and Reptiles in Tibet: Diversity and Evolution]. Science Press: Beijing, China. xxiii + 803 pp. (In Chinese). ISBN 978-7-03-063960-8 Reference page.
Patel, H., Bhardwaj, V.K., Thackeray, T., Campbell, P.D. & Mirza, Z.A. 2025. Phylogeny and Systematics of Oligodon juglandifer (Wall, 1909) with Comments on the Taxonomic Status of Oligodon lipipengi Jiang, Wang, Li, Ding, Ding & Che in Che et al. 2020. Diversity 17(3): 143. DOI: 10.3390/d17030143 Reference page.

Das, A., Ghosh, A. & Wangyal, J.T. 2021. IUCN: Oligodon juglandifer (Vulnerable). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T177415A123304792. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T177415A123304792.en. Accessed on 07 February 2026.