Oligodon ancorus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Oligodon
- Species
- Oligodon ancorus
- Scientific Name
- Oligodon ancorus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Oligodon ancorus
Oligodon ancorus, commonly known as the northern short-headed snake, is a species of colubrid snake found on the islands of Luzon and Mindoro in the Philippines, as well as the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. However, whether the populations from Sumatra, described as Oligodon rhombifer, belong to this species has been contested.
...Oligodon ancorus in languages:
- Chinese
- 北部小頭蛇
- Danish
- Luzon-kukrisnog
- English
- Northern Short-headed Snake
- German
- Weißflecken-Kukrinatter
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Oligodon affinis
- Oligodon albocinctus
- Oligodon ancorus
- Oligodon annamensis
- Oligodon annulifer
- Oligodon arenarius
- Oligodon arnensis
- Oligodon barroni
- Oligodon bitorquatus
- Oligodon bivirgatus
- Oligodon booliati
- Oligodon brevicauda
- Oligodon calamarius
- Oligodon catenatus
- Oligodon cattienensis
- Oligodon chinensis
- Oligodon churahensis
- Oligodon cinereus
- Oligodon condaoensis
- Oligodon cruentatus
- Oligodon culaochamensis
- Oligodon cyclurus
- Oligodon deuvei
- Oligodon dorsalis
- Oligodon eberhardti
- Oligodon erythrogaster
- Oligodon erythrorhachis
- Oligodon everetti
- Oligodon fasciolatus
- Oligodon forbesi
- Oligodon formosanus
- Oligodon hamptoni
- Oligodon huahin
- Oligodon inornatus
- Oligodon jintakunei
- Oligodon joynsoni
- Oligodon juglandifer
- Oligodon kampucheaensis
- Oligodon kheriensis
- Oligodon lacroixi
- Oligodon lipipengi
- Oligodon lungshenensis
- Oligodon macrurus
- Oligodon maculatus
- Oligodon mcdougalli
- Oligodon melaneus
- Oligodon melanozonatus
- Oligodon meyerinkii
- Oligodon modestus
- Oligodon moricei
- Oligodon mouhoti
- Oligodon nagao
- Oligodon nikhili
- Oligodon notospilus
- Oligodon ocellatus
- Oligodon octolineatus
- Oligodon ornatus
- Oligodon perkinsi
- Oligodon petronellae
- Oligodon phangan
- Oligodon planiceps
- Oligodon praefrontalis
- Oligodon promsombuti
- Oligodon propinquus
- Oligodon pseudotaeniatus
- Oligodon pulcherrimus
- Oligodon purpurascens
- Oligodon rostralis
- Oligodon russelius
- Oligodon saintgironsi
- Oligodon saiyok
- Oligodon signatus
- Oligodon splendidus
- Oligodon sublineatus
- Oligodon taeniatus
- Oligodon taeniolatus
- Oligodon teyniei
- Oligodon theobaldi
- Oligodon tillacki
- Oligodon tolaki
- Oligodon torquatus
- Oligodon travancoricus
- Oligodon trilineatus
- Oligodon tuani
- Oligodon unicolor
- Oligodon venustus
- Oligodon vertebralis
- Oligodon waandersi
- Oligodon wagneri
- Oligodon woodmasoni






