Lycodon tiwarii

Lycodon tiwarii, commonly known as the Andaman wolf snake and Tiwari's wolf snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to the Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands of India.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Etymology[]

The specific name, tiwarii, is in honor of Indian zoologist .^[5]

L. tiwarii is oviparous.^[6]

^ , Sanyal DP (1965). "A new species of wolf-snake of the genus Lycodon Boie (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of Calcutta 18 (2): 137-141. (Lycodon tiwarii, new species).
^ Das I (1999). "Biogeography of the amphibians and reptiles of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India". pp. 43–77. In: (editor) (1999). Tropical Island Herpetofauna: Origin, Current Diversity, and Conservation. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science. 353 pp. ISBN 978-0444501950.
^ (2003). "The distribution of some reptiles in the Nicobar Islands, India". ANET technical report – May 2003.
^ , (2006). "Taxonomy, Natural History, And Distribution Of The Snakes Of The Nicobar Islands (INDIA), Based On New Materials And With An Emphasis On Endemic Species". Russian Journal of Herpetology 13 (1): 11–40.
^ , , (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Lycodon tiwarii, p. 266).
^ Species Lycodon tiwarii at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.