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[1] |
Species | |
See text. | |
Synonyms | |
Cercaspis, Leptorhytaon, Ophites, Dryocalamus, Sphecodes, Tetragonosoma, Tytleria[2] |
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 70 recognized species.[5]
- Lycodon albofuscus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)
- Lycodon alcalai & , 1994
- Lycodon anamallensis Günther, 1864
- Lycodon aulicus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- et al., 2018
- Lycodon bibonius Ota & Ross, 1994
- Lycodon butleri Boulenger, 1900
- Lycodon capucinus F. Boie, 1827
- Lycodon cardamomensis & Wüster, 2002
- Lycodon carinatus (Kuhl, 1820)
- Wang, Qi, Lyu, Zeng, & Wang, 2020
- Lycodon cavernicolus Grismer et al., 2011
- (Angel & Bourret, 1933)
- Lycodon chithrasekarai Wickramasinghe et al., 2020
- Lycodon chrysoprateros Ota & Ross, 1994
- et al., 2012
- Lycodon davisonii (Blanford, 1878)
- Lycodon deccanensis Ganesh, Deuti, Punith, Achyuthan, Mallik, Adhikari, Vogel, 2020
- (Boulenger, 1893)
- Cantor, 1847
- Lycodon fasciatus (J. Anderson, 1879)
- , 2002
- Lanza, 1999
- & , 2007
- Lycodon flavomaculatus Wall, 1907
- (Pope, 1928)
- (Pope, 1928)
- Lycodon gammiei (Blanford, 1878)
- Vogel & David, 2019
- G. Vogel & , 2011
- Lycodon gracilis (Günther, 1864)
- (Theobald, 1868)
- Lycodon jara (Shaw, 1802)
- M.A. Smith, 1943
- Lycodon laoensis Günther, 1864
- et al., 2011
- Lycodon mackinnoni Wall, 1906
- (Bourret, 1935)
- A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854
- (Maki, 1931)
- (Zhao & , 1981)
- Luu, Ziegler, Ha, Le, & Hoang, 2019
- Lycodon nympha (Daudin, 1803)
- Wang, Yu, Vogel, & Che, 2020
- G. Vogel et al., 2009
- Lycodon orientalis (Hilgendorf, 1880)
- Rendahl in M.A. Smith, 1943
- , 1909
- Janssen, Pham, Ngo, Le, Nguyen, & Ziegler, 2019
- (Hu & Zhao, 1972)
- Lycodon rufozonatus Cantor, 1842
- Lycodon ruhstrati (Fischer, 1886)
- Leviton, 1955
- (Cope, 1860)
- Lycodon septentrionalis (Günther, 1875)
- Wang, Yu, Vogel, & Che, 2020
- Lycodon sidiki Wostl, Hamidy, Kurniawan & Smith, 2017
- Lycodon solivagus Ota & Ross, 1994
- Boettger, 1892
- Lycodon striatus (Shaw, 1802)
- (A.M.A. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854)
- Lycodon subcinctus F. Boie, 1827
- G. Vogel & , 2010
- Jan, 1863
- Lycodon tiwarii & , 1965
- Lycodon travancoricus (Beddome, 1870)
- Günther, 1858
- Lycodon zawi Slowinski et al., 2001[6]
- Jiang, Wang, Jin, & Che, 2020
- Lycodon zoosvictoriae 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).
- ^ a b 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.
Categories:
- Lycodon
- Colubrids
- Snake genera
- Taxa named by Leopold Fitzinger
- Colubrid stubs