Species

Oligodon melaneus

Oligodon melaneus · described by WALL 1909

Oligodon affinis, a close relative of Oligodon melaneus

Pictured: Oligodon affinis, a close relative from the same genus. This species is still waiting for its first free photo.

Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Shyamal assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The facts

Scientific name
Oligodon melaneus
First described
WALL 1909
Class
Reptiles (Reptilia)
Order
Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)
Group
Snakes (Serpentes)
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Oligodon

Taxonomic data: Uetz, P. et al. (eds.), The Reptile Database, under CC-BY 4.0.

Where it sits on the tree