Lycodon
Genus of snakes
Lycodon subcinctus , Malayan banded wolfsnake, in Letefoho , East Timor
Lycodon is a genus of colubrid snakes , commonly known as wolf snakes .[ 3] The Neo-Latin name Lycodon is derived from the Greek words λύκος (lykos ) meaning wolf and οδόν (odon ) meaning tooth,[ 4] and refers to the fang-like anterior maxillary and mandibular teeth.[ 2] They are nonvenomous, but many members of this genus strongly resemble the venomous kraits in appearance, an example of Emsleyan mimicry .
Fossil record
Fossils of Lycodon are known from the Early Pliocene of Henan .[ 5]
Species
The genus Lycodon comprises 73 recognized species .[ 6]
Lycodon albofuscus (A.M.C. Duméril , Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril , 1854) – dark wolf snake
Lycodon alcalai Ota & Ross , 1994 – Alcala's wolf snake
Lycodon anakradaya A.T. Nguyen , Duong , Wood & Grismer , 2022
Lycodon anamallensis Günther , 1864 – Colombo wolf snake
Lycodon aulicus (Linnaeus , 1758 ) – Indian wolf snake, common wolf snake
Lycodon banksi Luu et al., 2018 – Banks's wolf snake
Lycodon bibonius Ota & Ross, 1994 – Ota's wolf snake
Lycodon bicolor (Nikolsky , 1903) – Mackinnon's wolf snake
Lycodon butleri Boulenger , 1900 – Butler's wolf snake
Lycodon capucinus F. Boie , 1827 – common wolf snake
Lycodon cardamomensis Daltry & Wüster , 2002
Lycodon carinatus (Kuhl , 1820) – Ceylon wolf snake
Lycodon cathaya J. Wang , Qi , Lyu , Zeng & Y.-Y. Wang , 2020 – Huaping wolf snake
Lycodon cavernicolus Grismer et al., 2011 – Gua Wang Burma wolf snake
Lycodon chapaensis (Angel & Bourret , 1933) – Namdong wolf snake
Lycodon chithrasekarai Wickramasinghe et al., 2020 – Chithrasekara's bridle snake
Lycodon chrysoprateros Ota & Ross, 1994 – Ross's wolf snake
Lycodon davidi G. Vogel et al., 2012 – David's wolf snake
Lycodon davisonii (Blanford , 1878) – Blanford's bridal snake
Lycodon deccanensis Ganesh , Deuti , Punith , Achyuthan , Mallik , Adhikari & G. Vogel, 2020
Lycodon dumerili (Boulenger , 1893) – Duméril's wolf snake
Lycodon effraenis Cantor , 1847 – brown wolf snake
Lycodon fasciatus (J. Anderson , 1879)
Lycodon fasciolatus (Shaw , 1802) – banded wolf snake
Lycodon fausti Gaulke , 2002 – Faust's wolf snake
Lycodon ferroni Lanza , 1999 – Ferron's Asian wolf snake
Lycodon flavicollis Mukherjee & Bhupathy , 2007 – yellow-collared wolf snake
Lycodon flavomaculatus Wall , 1907 – yellow-spotted wolf snake
Lycodon flavozonatus (Pope , 1928) – yellow-banded big tooth snake, yellow-spotted wolf snake, big-tooth snake
Lycodon futsingensis (Pope, 1928)
Lycodon gammiei (Blanford, 1878) – Gammie's wolf snake, Sikkim false wolf snake
Lycodon gibsonae G. Vogel & David , 2019 – Gibson's wolf snake
Lycodon gongshan G. Vogel & Luo , 2011 – Gongshan wolf snake
Lycodon gracilis (Günther, 1864) – scarce bridal snake
Lycodon hypsirhinoides (Theobald , 1868)
Lycodon jara (Shaw, 1802) – twin-spotted wolf snake
Lycodon kundui M.A. Smith , 1943
Lycodon laoensis Günther, 1864 – Laotian wolf snake
Lycodon liuchengchaoi Zhang et al., 2011
Lycodon meridionalis (Bourret, 1935)
Lycodon muelleri A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 – Müller's wolf snake
Lycodon multifasciatus (Maki , 1931)
Lycodon multizonatus (Zhao & Y.-M. Jiang , 1981) – Luding wolf snake, Luding Kukri snake
Lycodon namdongensis Luu, Ziegler , Ha , Le & Hoang , 2019 [ 7]
Lycodon nympha (Daudin , 1803) – Vellore bridal snake
Lycodon obvelatus K. Wang , Yu , G. Vogel & Che , 2020 – recluse wolf snake
Lycodon ophiophagus G. Vogel et al., 2009 – snake-eater wolf snake
Lycodon orientalis (Hilgendorf , 1880) – Oriental odd-tooth snake
Lycodon paucifasciatus Rendahl in M.A. Smith, 1943 – Rendahl's wolf snake
Lycodon philippinus Griffin , 1909 – Philippine dryocalamus
Lycodon pictus Janssen , Pham , Ngo , Le, T.Q. Nguyen & Ziegler, 2019
Lycodon rosozonatus (Hu & Zhao, 1972) – rose big-tooth snake
Lycodon rufozonatus Cantor, 1842 – red-banded snake
Lycodon ruhstrati (Fischer , 1886) – mountain wolf snake, Formosa wolf snake
Lycodon sealei Leviton , 1955 – Seale's banded Asian wolf snake
Lycodon semicarinatus (Cope , 1860) – Loo-Choo big-tooth snake, Ryukyu odd-tooth snake
Lycodon septentrionalis (Günther, 1875) – white-banded wolf snake, northern large-toothed snake
Lycodon serratus K. Wang, Yu, G. Vogel & Che, 2020 – serrate-banded wolf snake
Lycodon sidiki Wostl , Hamidy , Kurniawan & E.N. Smith , 2017
Lycodon solivagus Ota & Ross, 1994 – common wolf snake
Lycodon stormi Boettger , 1892 – Sulawesi wolf snake
Lycodon striatus (Shaw, 1802) – northern wolf snake, barred wolf snake
Lycodon subannulatus (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) – Malayan bridal snake, southern bridle snake
Lycodon subcinctus F. Boie, 1827 – Malayan banded wolf snake
Lycodon synaptor G. Vogel & David, 2010 – Boehme's wolf snake
Lycodon tessellatus Jan , 1863 – Manila wolf snake
Lycodon tiwarii Biswas & Sanyal , 1965 – Andaman wolf snake
Lycodon travancoricus (Beddome , 1870) – Travancore wolf snake
Lycodon tristrigatus Günther, 1858
Lycodon truongi A.T. Nguyen, Duong, Wood & Grismer, 2022 – Truong's wolf snake
Lycodon zawi Slowinski et al., 2001[ 8] – Zaw's wolf snake
Lycodon zayuensis K. Jiang , Wang, Jin & Che, 2020
Lycodon zoosvictoriae Neang et al., 2014 – Zoos Victoria's wolf snake
Nota bene : A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Lycodon .
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