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| genus = Bungarus<br />
| species = bungaroides<br />
| authority = ([[Theodore Edward Cantor|Cantor]], 1839)<br />
| synonyms = * ''Elaps bungaroides'' [[Theodore Edward Cantor|Cantor]], 1839<br />
* ''Xenurelaps bungaroides'' – [[Albert Günther|Günther]], 1864<br />
* ''Bungarus bungaroides'' – [[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1890<br />
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'''''Bungarus bungaroides''''', the '''northeastern hill krait''', is a species of [[venomous]] [[elapid]] snake.<ref name="Bücherl Buckley Deulofeu 2013">{{cite book | last=Bücherl | first=W. | last2=Buckley | first2=E.E. | last3=Deulofeu | first3=V. | title=Venomous Animals and Their Venoms: Venomous Vertebrates | publisher=Elsevier Science | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-4832-6363-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dCzLBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA531 | access-date=9 June 2019 | page=531}}</ref><br />
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== Description ==<br />
Diagnostic characters:<br />
* Dorsal scales in 15 longitudinal rows at midbody<br />
* Subcaudal scutes ordinarily divided anteriorly, but occasionally some scutes may be single, but always divided near the tip<br />
* Ventrals 220–237; subcaudals 44-51<br />
* Dorsum – black with a series of very narrow white to pale yellowish lines or crossbars; on the belly, the light crossbars widen to form distinct transverse bars<br />
* Total length of largest male 1400&nbsp;mm (55&nbsp;in); tail length 160&nbsp;mm (6.3&nbsp;in)<br />
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== Distribution and habitat ==<br />
This species is found in [[Myanmar]], [[India]] ([[Assam]], [[Cachar]], [[Sikkim]]), [[Nepal]], and [[Vietnam]] at elevations around 2040&nbsp;m as well as in [[Tibet]]. The type locality is given as: "Cherra Punjee, Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, India".<ref>[[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger, G.A.]] 1896. ''Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History), Volume III''. London. p. 371.</ref><ref name="RDB">{{NRDB species|genus=Bungarus|species=bungaroides|accessdate=18 November 2013}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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* [[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger, G. A.]] 1890. ''The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia''. Taylor & Francis. London. xviii, 541 pp.<br />
* [[Theodore Edward Cantor|Cantor, T.E.]] 1839. ''Spicilegium serpentium indicorum'' [parts 1 and 2]. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 7:31-34,49-55.<br />
* Golay, P. 1985. Checklist and keys to the terrestrial proteroglyphs of the world (Serpentes: Elapidae – Hydrophiidae). Elapsoidea, Geneva.<br />
* [[Joseph Bruno Slowinski|Slowinski, J. B.]] 1994. A phylogenetic analysis of ''Bungarus'' (Elapidae) based on morphological characters. Journal of Herpetology 28(4):440-446.<br />
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[[Category:Bungarus|bungaroides]]<br />
[[Category:Reptiles of Myanmar]]<br />
[[Category:Reptiles of China]]<br />
[[Category:Reptiles of India]]<br />
[[Category:Reptiles of Nepal]]<br />
[[Category:Reptiles of Vietnam]]<br />
[[Category:Taxa named by Theodore Edward Cantor]]<br />
[[Category:Reptiles described in 1839]]<br />
[[Category:Snakes of China]]<br />
[[Category:Snakes of Vietnam]]<br />
[[Category:Snakes of Asia]]<br />
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