Micrurus bernadi Geographic distribution Hidalgo

Herpetological Review

Sinomicrurus macclellandi (Reinhardt, 1844), the MacClelland's coral snake, so far known from southern and eastern Asia was identified from Bangladesh based on a preserved specimen. The specimen, an adult (387 mm long) female from Sunamganj of Sylhet Division exhibits 13:13:13 scale rows, 242 ventrals and 25 paired subcaudals and hence identified thus. We urge future field surveys in Sylhet regions and elsewhere within Bangla-desh to locate live populations of this snake and better map its distribution range in the country. This situation also calls for the attention of Snakebite Management Systems in Bangladesh.

Check List, 2012

Check List 16(5): 1239 - 1268, 2020

An annotated inventory of the herpetofauna of Lawachara National Park in Bangladesh is presented, based primarily on original field observations recorded during a six-year survey of the Park. A total of 71 species are reported, including 19 Anura, one Apoda, two Chelonii, and 49 Squamata. The course of the survey revealed 16 range extensions including 11 new country records for Bangladesh. Eight of the 16 range extensions including six of the 11 country records are reported for the first time. Deleted from previous Lawachara National Park checklists are 23 species that had been erroneously reported due to misidentification or the splitting or synonymization of species.

Check List, 2021

We provide the first evidence of the presence of the Persian Gulf Sea Snake, Hydrophis lapemoides (Gray, 1849), along the coast of Bangladesh. This species was assumed to exist in there, but neither specimens nor confirmed observations exist until now. We document here the first confirmed record of H. lapemoides based on a freshly collected and taxonomically verified specimen from coastal Bangladesh. The Bangladeshi specimen had the following diagnostic characters: 55 black bands, a dorsal scale composition of 35:51:43, 342 ventrals, one pre-ocular, two post-oculars, 2+3 temporals, 8 supralabials (II largest and contact prefrontals; III–IV contact orbit) and 8 infralabials (I–IV contact genials).

A study was conducted on status and diversity of the snakes of the Chittagong University Campus (CUC) between September 2013 and December 2014, and on preserved snakes specimens of museums of the CUC (Department of Zoology, University of Chittagong; Institute of Marine Sciences and Fisheries, University of Chittagong; and Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Chittagong). Thirty six species of snakes belonging to 22 genera and five families (Typhlopidae, Pythonidae, Colubridae, Elapidae and Viperidae) were recorded from the CUC during the study period. Colubridae comprised the highest (24 species i.e., 66.67%) number of species and Pythonidae the lowest (1 species). Checkered Keelback Xenochrophis piscator was the most common snake and the rarest was Bengalese Kukri Snake Oligodon dorsalis belonging to the Family Colubridae in the CUC. Among venomous snakes Banded Krait Bungarus fasciatus was the most common snake and Black Krait Bungarus niger was the most rare. Their status in CUC has been assessed.

Hamadryad, 2009

We present here details of a collection of herpetofauna from Bangladesh, held at the Jahangirnagar University Herpetological Group, Dhaka. This collection is comprised of at least 58 species, six are tentatively identified to their nearest described species which themselves are recognised to consist of more than one cryptic species. Four species could not be accurately identified to species level. It is likely that some of these ten "species" represent cryptic species and possibly undescribed taxa. Several of the localities presented here provide the first confirmed localities for species previously listed as present in Bangladesh, but were not confirmed with locality or specimen data. Other species in the collection represent previously unknown localities, e.g., Euphlyctis hexadactylus, Uperodon globulosus and Cyrtodactylus sp. Eutropis multifasciata, and Hylarana cf. nigrovittata, are here recorded from Bangladesh for the first time based on our collections and Takydromus khasiensis is also reported for the first time from Bangladesh based on apparently unpublished specimens in the collection of the California Academy of Science.

Hamadryad. 32 (1):45–56. , 2008

A herpetofaunal survey was conducted at a relatively disturbed area in Milonchari, central Chittagong Hill Tracts. A total of 24 species (11 frog, nine lizard and four snake species) from 21 different genera, were documented. Of these, at least two lizard species are new records for Bangladesh. One of these, Lygosoma lineolatum, was previously considered a Myanmar endemic. The second species, Hemidactylus garnotii, is widely distributed in south-east Asia and north-east India. Of the remaining species, three (Calotes cf. versicolor, Microhyla cf. berdmorei and Xenophrys cf. parva) have been tentatively assigned to their closest described relatives which themselves are species complexes. Most species found during this study are of south-east Asian affinities, and all but two-Microhyla cf. berdmorei and Cyrtodactylus sp.-are considered primarily associated with anthropogenically modified habitats.

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2010