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| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Elapidae |
| Genus: | Bungarus |
| Species: | B. walli |
| Binomial name | |
| Bungarus walli Wall, 1907 | |
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Bungarus walli, the Wall's krait, is a species of krait, a venomous elapid snake found in northern India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan. It has previously been treated as a subspecies of Bungarus sindanus (also known as the Sind krait), but is now considered a valid species.
Etymology
This taxon is named in honour of British herpetologist Frank Wall, who named the taxon after himself, admitting that it was a "breach of ethics" to do so.
Habitat
Bungarus walli occurs in forests, agricultural fields, and rural and urbanized areas. It is locally common.
Notes
- Bungarus walli doesn not occur in Sindh (Pakistan). This common name apparently carries over from the period when this taxon was part of Bungarus sindanus.
References
- ^ Ghosh, A.; Giri, V.; Limbu, K.P.; Hasan, M.K.; Wangyal, J.T. (2022) . "Bungarus walli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T127914642A219117447. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T127914642A219117447.en. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
- ^ Wall, F. (1907). "A new krait from Oudh (Bungarus walli)". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 17. Bombay Natural History Society: 155–157.
- ^ Bungarus walli at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 8 August 2023.
- Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Bungarus sindanus walli, p. 79).
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