Lycodon fasciatus
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| image = Lycodon fasciatus.jpg
| image_caption = Lycodon fasciatus, Banded wolf snake - Phu Kradueng National Park
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Lycodon
| species = fasciatus
| authority = (Anderson, 1879)
| synonyms = Ophites fasciatus Anderson, 1879
Lycodon fasciatus - Boulenger, 1890
Dinodon yunnanensis Werner, 1922
Lycodon fasciatus - M.A. Smith, 1943Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History), Volume I. London.The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
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Lycodon fasciatus, commonly known as the banded wolf snake, is a species of colubrid snake.
Distribution
Description
Adults may attain 53 cm (21 inches) in total length, with a tail 11 cm (4¼ inches) long.
Its color pattern consists of broad purplish-black rings which encircle its body and are separated by yellowish or reddish intervals. The first black ring does not encircle the neck.
The dorsal scales are in 17 rows, weakly keeled anteriorly, the keels becoming more pronounced posteriorly. The ventrals are 205–213; the anal is entire; and the divided subcaudals are 77–90.Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History), Volume I. London.
Photos
Image:Lycodon fasciatus, 2.jpg|Lycodon fasciatus, Banded wolf snake - Phu Kradueng National Park
References
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Further reading
- Anderson, John. 1879. Anatomical and Zoological Researches: Comprising an Account of the Zoological Results of the Two Expeditions to Western Yunnan in 1866 and 1875; and a Monograph of the Two Cetacean Genera Platanista and Orcella. Bernard Quaritch, London "1878". Two volumes (Text: 985 pages [herpetology: pages 703–860, 969-975]; Atlas: 85 plates [herpetological plates 55–78, 75A, 75B]).
- Boulenger, George A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
- Daltry, J.C. & Wüster, W. 2002. A new species of Wolf Snake (Serpentes: Colubridae: Lycodon) from the Cardamom Mountains, Southwestern Cambodia. Herpetologica 58 (4): 498–504.
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Category:Fauna of Southeast Asia
Category:Reptiles described in 1879
Category:Taxa named by John Anderson (zoologist)
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