This one is interesting… I found it at the top of a small limestone mountain. It’s like a keelback, and a kukri snake. A juvenile. Green – dark green on top – solid pattern, no fluctuation. Bottom is dark grey. It’s about 1 foot long. Will get some photos and video and put them up as soon as I get the camera back from my wife!
Ok, below are pics – and I’ll get a video up on Youtube in a few…
Have a look at the video at Youtube (embedded below in a few minutes) and see if you can figure it out…
Gerwot from Germany said it was in the genus Oligodon. That seems right on. He showed me how to do a scale count and I got 15’s. If this is the Oligodon inornatus it might be a new snake for this area, greatly extending its range. Some lit has the range as northern Thailand and southeastern Thailand (Isaan area). Here’s a grab from the PDF referencing the snakes range, and addressing some mistakes in a printed book about snakes…
Has a snout built for burrowing and it reminds me of a kukri snake. Probobly is a rare subspecies from the area – I would love to find something as strange as that!
Everyone was pretty stumped, even with the scale counts – so likely a new snake in the area.