Lycodon
| Lycodon | |
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| Lycodon aulicus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Colubrinae |
| Genus: | Lycodon Fitzinger, 1826[1] |
| Species | |
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See text. | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cercaspis, Leptorhytaon, Ophites, Sphecodes, Tetragonosoma, Tytleria[2] | |
Lycodon subcinctus, Malayan banded wolfsnake, in Letefoho, East Timor
Lycodon is a genus of colubrid snakes, commonly known as wolf snakes.[3] The New 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]
Species
The genus Lycodon comprises 51 recognized species.[5]
- Lycodon alcalai Ota & Ross, 1994
- Lycodon aulicus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lycodon bibonius Ota & Ross, 1994
- Lycodon butleri Boulenger, 1900
- Lycodon capucinus F. Boie, 1827
- Lycodon cardamomensis Daltry & Wüster, 2002
- Lycodon carinatus (Kuhl, 1820)
- Lycodon cavernicolus Grismer et al., 2011
- Lycodon chrysoprateros Ota & Ross, 1994
- Lycodon davidi G. Vogel et al., 2012
- 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 gongshan G. Vogel & Luo, 2011
- 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 odishii Mallik et al., 2014
- Lycodon ophiophagus G. Vogel et al., 2009
- Lycodon orientalis (Hilgendorf, 1880)
- Lycodon osmanhilli Taylor, 1950
- Lycodon paucifasciatus Rendahl in M.A. Smith, 1943
- Lycodon rosozonatus (Hu & Zhao, 1972)
- Lycodon rufozonatus Cantor, 1842
- Lycodon ruhstrati (Fischer, 1886)
- Lycodon semicarinatus (Cope, 1860)
- Lycodon septentrionalis (Günther, 1875)
- Lycodon solivagus Ota & Ross, 1994
- Lycodon stormi Boettger, 1892
- Lycodon striatus (Shaw, 1802)
- 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 zawi Slowinski et al., 2001[6]
- 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.
References
- ↑ Fitzinger LI. 1826. Neue Classification der Reptilien nach ihren natürlichen Verwandtschaften. Nebst einer Verwandtschafts-tafel und einem Verzeichnisse der Reptilien-Sammlung des K.K. zoologischen Museums zu Wien. Vienna: J.G. Heubner, five unnumbered + 67 pp. + one plate. (Lycodon, new genus, p. 57). (in German and Latin).
- 1 2 Boulenger GA. 1893. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History), Volume I., Containing the Families ... Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part.. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (Genus Lycodon, p. 348, Figure 23).
- ↑ http://www.britannica.com
- ↑ Mish FC (Editor in Chief). 2004. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. 40a + 1,623 pp. ISBN 0-87779-809-5. ("lycopodium", p. 742; "odonate" p. 860).
- ↑ Uetz, Peter; Hallermann, Jakob. "Lycodon". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
- ↑ "Lycodon zawi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
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