A rare blue bellied Kukri Snake was spotted in Assam after a century marking a milestone in the field of herpetology. The rare snake known as Oligodonmelaneus, commonly known as Bluebelly Kukri Snake, was recently discovered in the North East State after 112 years of its original description. As per reports, the snake was last spotted in July 1908 in West Bengal’s Tindharia village which is around 267 km in the west direction of Manas. Blue-belly kukri snake is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. It is endemic to eastern India and was described in 1909 by Frank Wall based on two specimens from Tindharia, Darjeeling at Bombay Natural History Museum (BNHM) and the other at Natural History Museum (NHM), London.
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