Oligodon cyclurus

{{Short description|Species of snake}}

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| name = Cantor's Kukri Snake

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Stuart, B.L. |author2=Vogel, G. |author3=Wogan, G. |author4=Ghosh, A. |author5=Khan, M. |year=2021 |title=Oligodon cyclurus |volume=2021 |page=e.T127903655A1483919 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T127903655A1483919.en |access-date=11 June 2023}}

| genus = Oligodon

| species = cyclurus

| authority = (Cantor, 1839)

| synonyms = * Coronella cyclura CANTOR 1839

• Coronella violacea CANTOR 1839
• Simotes bicatenatus GÜNTHER 1864
• Simotes cochinchinensis GÜNTHER 1864
• Simotes brevicauda STEINDACHNER 1867
• Simotes bicatenatus — ANDERSON 1871
• Simotes bicatenatus — STOLICZKA 1873
• Simotes cyclurus — BOULENGER 1890
• Simotes cyclurus — WALL 1908
• Simotes albocinctus dorsolateralis WALL 1909 (fide WAGNER, pers. comm.)
• Simotes albocinctus var. dorsolateralis — WALL 1910
• Holarchus cyclurus — SMITH 1920
• Oligodon purpurascens WALL 1923 (non SCHLEGEL)
• Simotes smithi WERNER 1925 (fide SMITH 1928)
• Holarchus purpurascens — COCHRAN 1930
• Oligodon cyclurus — SMITH 1943: 202
• Oligodon dorsolateralis — TAYLOR 1965
• Rhynchocalamus violaceus
• Olygodon [sic] cyclurus — SCHULZ 1988
• Oligodon dorsolateralis — DAS 1996: 58
• Oligodon dorsolateralis — CHAN-ARD et al. 1999: 34
• Oligodon dorsolateralis — PAUWELS et al. 2002
• Oligodon cyclurus — GREEN et al. 2010
• Oligodon cyclurus — DAVID et al. 2011
• Oligodon cyclurus — WALLACH et al. 2014{{NRDB species|genus=Oligodon|species=cyclurus|access date=29 July|year=2022}}

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Oligodon cyclurus (Cantor's kukri snake) is a species of snake found in Asia. It was first described by Theodore Cantor in 1839.{{cite book |last1=Beolens |first1=B. |last2=Watkins |first2=M. |last3=Grayson |first3=M. |title=The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-4214-0227-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0F758vNQ0UUC&pg=PT162 |access-date=10 June 2019 |page=162}}