Ashok Captain

{{short description|Indian herpetologist|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} [[File:Ashok_Captain.JPG|thumb|right|Ashok Captain]] '''Ashok Captain''' (born 4 September 1960) is an Indian [[herpetologist]] who has authored books and papers on Indian snakes. He was also a competing [[cycle sport|cyclist]] from 1977 to 1989.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashok Captain|url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=727|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120724091024/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=727|url-status=usurped|archive-date=24 July 2012|work=Cycling Archives|publisher= de Wielersite|accessdate=8 January 2012}}</ref>

==Eponyms== [[Captain's wood snake]] (''Xylophis captaini)'' <ref>[[species:Bo Beolens|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}}. ("Captain", p. 47).</ref> and Ashok's bronzeback tree snake (''[[Dendrelaphis|Dendrelaphis ashoki]])'' have been named after Ashok Captain.<ref>{{cite journal|author=[[David J. Gower|Gower DJ]], [[species:Jasmin D. Winkler|Winkler JD]]|year=2007|title=Taxonomy of The Indian snake ''Xylophis'' Beddome (Serpentes: Caenophidia), with description of a new species|journal=Hamadryad|volume=31|issue=2|pages=315–329|url=http://www.zm.uzh.ch/agwilson/People/Jasmin%20Winkler/Gower&Winkler2007Hamadryad.pdf|accessdate=8 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203032755/http://www.zm.uzh.ch/agwilson/People/Jasmin%20Winkler/Gower%26Winkler2007Hamadryad.pdf|archive-date=3 December 2008|url-status=dead}} (''Xylophis captaini'', new species).</ref>

==Publications== Works by Ashok Captain include: * {{cite book|last1=Whitaker|first1=Romulus|authorlink1=Romulus Whitaker|last2=Captain|first2=Ashok|title=Snakes of India: The Field Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IYNFAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=9 January 2012|year=2004|publisher=Draco Books. 495 pp|location=Chennai|isbn=978-81-901873-0-5}}

==References== {{reflist}}

==Further reading== *[[species:Gernot Vogel|Vogel, Gernot]]; [[species:Johan van Rooijen|van Rooijen, Johan]] (2011). "Contributions to a Review of the ''Dendrelaphis pictus'' ([[Johann Friedrich Gmelin|Gmelin]], 1789) Complex (Serpentes: Colubridae) — 3. The Indian Forms, with the Description of a New Species from the Western Ghats". ''Journal of Herpetology'' '''45''' (1): 100–110. (''Dendrelaphis ashoki'', new species).

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