Tuesday, June 25, 2019

[Herpetology • 2019] First Record of the Krait Bungarus slowinskii (Squamata: Elapidae) from Thailand


Bungarus slowinskii Kuch, Kizirian, Nguyen, Lawson, Donelly & Mebs, 2005
from Doi Phu Kha National Park, Nan Province, northern Thailand.

 in Smits & Hauser, 2019. 
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Abstract
The Red River krait Bungarus slowinskii has hitherto been known only from six localities in northern and central Vietnam and central Laos. In this paper, the first country record of this species is reported for Thailand. One adult specimen was observed and photographed in the evergreen forest in the mountainous Doi Phu Kha National Park, Nan Province, eastern North Thailand. Its morphological characteristics closely matched those in the previous records of B. slowinskii. The new record extends the range of the species about 200 km to the west.

Keywords: Bungarus slowinskii, elapids, habitat, northern Thailand, zoogeography


FIGURE 1. QSMI 1601, Bungarus slowinskii from Nan Province, Thailand.

  FIGURE 2. Lateral view of the head and neck of QSMI 1601, Bungarus slowinskii from Nan Province, Thailand.

FIGURE 3. Details of white cross-bands with the black-edged scales of QSMI 1601, Bungarus slowinskii from Nan Province, Thailand. 




Ton Smits and Sjon Hauser. 2019. First Record of the Krait Bungarus slowinskii Kuch, Kizirian, Nguyen, Lawson, Donelly and Mebs, 2005 (Squamata: Elapidae) from Thailand. Tropical Natural History. 19(2); 43-50. tci-thaijo.org/index.php/tnh/article/view/170942
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