page_title: Ashok Captain
hierarchical_section_title: Ashok Captain
caption_attribution_description: English: Ashok Captain, Indian herpetologist and taxonomist.
context_page_description: Ashok Captain is an Indian herpetologist who has authored books and papers on Indian snakes. He was also a competing cyclist from 1977 to 1989. Captain's wood snake and Ashok's bronzeback tree snake have been named after him.
  Works by Ashok Captain include:
  Whitaker, Romulus; Captain, Ashok. Snakes of India: The Field Guide. Chennai: Draco Books. p. 495. ISBN 978-81-901873-0-5. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
context_section_description: Ashok Captain (4 September 1960) is an Indian herpetologist who has authored books and papers on Indian snakes. He was also a competing cyclist from 1977 to 1989. Captain's wood snake (Xylophis captaini ) and Ashok's bronzeback tree snake (Dendrelaphis ashoki ) have been named after him.
  Works by Ashok Captain include:
  Whitaker, Romulus; Captain, Ashok (2004). Snakes of India: The Field Guide. Chennai: Draco Books. p. 495. ISBN 978-81-901873-0-5. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
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