Oligodon woodmasoni is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to the Nicobar Islands of India.
The specific name, woodmasoni, is in honor of English zoologist James Wood-Mason.
Oviparous animals are female animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive...
Precocial species are those in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching. Precocial species are normall...
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starts withM.A. Smith reported that the holotype of this species was missing from the ZSI Kolkata collections. The species was rediscovered in 2002 and a new specimen was deposited at the ZSI.
The details of the specimen, ZSI25503 are as follows:
Snout-to-vent length: 440 mm (17 in). Tail length: 80 mm (3.1 in). Dorsal scale rows: at neck 18; at midbody 17. Ventrals: 185. Subcaudals: 46. Supralabials: 6 (4th in contact with the eye). Infralabials: 7.
O. woodmasoni is oviparous.
