Northern short-headed snake
Oligodon ancorus

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Head and neck: brown; head short with crossband anterior of eye; black diagonal marking on temporal area; large black Y-shaped marking on dorsal of head and neck; rostral larger, higher than wide; loreal longer than wide; 1 preocular; 2 postoculars; 7 upper labials, 3rd and 4th in contact with eye; 7 to 8 lower labials; eye large.


Body: brown with 15 to 18 black blotches and scattered round spots; ventrals 163; anal plate single; subcaudals 63.

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