Lycodon
Lycodon | |
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Lycodon aulicus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Colubridae |
Subfamily: | Colubrinae |
Genus: | Lycodon Fitzinger, 1826 |
Species | |
See text. | |
Synonyms | |
Cercaspis, Leptorhytaon, Ophites, Dryocalamus, Sphecodes, Tetragonosoma, Tytleria |
Lycodon is a genus of colubrid snakes, commonly known as wolf snakes. The New Latin name Lycodon is derived from the Greek words λύκος (lykos) meaning wolf and οδόν (odon) meaning tooth, and refers to the fang-like anterior maxillary and mandibular teeth.
Species
The genus Lycodon comprises 70 recognized species.
- Lycodon albofuscus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)
- Lycodon alcalai Ota & Ross, 1994
- Lycodon anamallensis Günther, 1864
- Lycodon aulicus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lycodon banksi Luu et al., 2018
- Lycodon bibonius Ota & Ross, 1994
- Lycodon butleri Boulenger, 1900
- Lycodon capucinus F. Boie, 1827
- Lycodon cardamomensis Daltry & Wüster, 2002
- Lycodon carinatus (Kuhl, 1820)
- Lycodon cathaya Wang, Qi, Lyu, Zeng, & Wang, 2020
- Lycodon cavernicolus Grismer et al., 2011
- Lycodon chapaensis (Angel & Bourret, 1933)
- Lycodon chithrasekarai Wickramasinghe et al., 2020
- Lycodon chrysoprateros Ota & Ross, 1994
- Lycodon davidi G. Vogel et al., 2012
- Lycodon davisonii (Blanford, 1878)
- Lycodon deccanensis Ganesh, Deuti, Punith, Achyuthan, Mallik, Adhikari, Vogel, 2020
- Lycodon dumerili (Boulenger, 1893)
- Lycodon effraenis Cantor, 1847
- Lycodon fasciatus (J. Anderson, 1879)
- Lycodon fausti Gaulke, 2002
- Lycodon ferroni Lanza, 1999
- Lycodon flavicollis Mukherjee & Bhupathy, 2007
- Lycodon flavomaculatus Wall, 1907
- Lycodon flavozonatus (Pope, 1928)
- Lycodon futsingensis (Pope, 1928)
- Lycodon gammiei (Blanford, 1878)
- Lycodon gibsonae Vogel & David, 2019
- Lycodon gongshan G. Vogel & Luo, 2011
- Lycodon gracilis (Günther, 1864)
- Lycodon hypsirhinoides (Theobald, 1868)
- Lycodon jara (Shaw, 1802)
- Lycodon kundui M.A. Smith, 1943
- Lycodon laoensis Günther, 1864
- Lycodon liuchengchaoi Zhang et al., 2011
- Lycodon mackinnoni Wall, 1906
- Lycodon meridionale (Bourret, 1935)
- Lycodon muelleri A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854
- Lycodon multifasciatus (Maki, 1931)
- Lycodon multizonatus (Zhao & Jiang, 1981)
- Lycodon namdongensis Luu, Ziegler, Ha, Le, & Hoang, 2019
- Lycodon nympha (Daudin, 1803)
- Lycodon obvelatus Wang, Yu, Vogel, & Che, 2020
- Lycodon ophiophagus G. Vogel et al., 2009
- Lycodon orientalis (Hilgendorf, 1880)
- Lycodon paucifasciatus Rendahl in M.A. Smith, 1943
- Lycodon philippinus Griffin, 1909
- Lycodon pictus Janssen, Pham, Ngo, Le, Nguyen, & Ziegler, 2019
- Lycodon rosozonatus (Hu & Zhao, 1972)
- Lycodon rufozonatus Cantor, 1842
- Lycodon ruhstrati (Fischer, 1886)
- Lycodon sealei Leviton, 1955
- Lycodon semicarinatus (Cope, 1860)
- Lycodon septentrionalis (Günther, 1875)
- Lycodon serratus Wang, Yu, Vogel, & Che, 2020
- Lycodon sidiki Wostl, Hamidy, Kurniawan & Smith, 2017
- Lycodon solivagus Ota & Ross, 1994
- Lycodon stormi Boettger, 1892
- Lycodon striatus (Shaw, 1802)
- Lycodon subannulatus (A.M.A. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854)
- Lycodon subcinctus F. Boie, 1827
- Lycodon synaptor G. Vogel & David, 2010
- Lycodon tessellatus Jan, 1863
- Lycodon tiwarii Biswas & Sanyal, 1965
- Lycodon travancoricus (Beddome, 1870)
- Lycodon tristrigatus Günther, 1858
- Lycodon zawi Slowinski et al., 2001
- Lycodon zayuensis Jiang, Wang, Jin, & Che, 2020
- Lycodon zoosvictoriae Neang et al., 2014
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Lycodon.