Lycodon jara
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| name = Lycodon jara
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = {{Cite journal | author = Captain, A. | title = Lycodon jara | journal = The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | volume = 2010 | page = e.T176843A7315760 | publisher = IUCN | date = 2010 | url = http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/176843/0 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T176843A7315760.en | access-date = 10 January 2018| doi-access = free }}
| image = AB117 Lycodon jara.JPG
| image_caption = A twin-spotted wolf snake from North Bengal.
| genus = Lycodon
| species = jara
| authority = (Shaw, 1802)Shaw, G. 1802 General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Vol.3, part 1 + 2. G. Kearsley, Thomas Davison, London: 313-615
| synonyms = Coluber jara Shaw, 1802
Lycodon jara - Schlegel, 1837
Coluber bipunctatus Cantor, 1839
Leptorhytaon jara - Günther, 1858
Lycophidion bipunctatum - Peters, 1863
Lycodon jara - Stoliczka, 1871Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History), Volume I. London.
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Lycodon jara, commonly known as the twin-spotted wolf snake, is a species of colubrid snake. It is endemic to Asia.
Distribution
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Found in Bangladesh, India (Assam, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, West Bengal and parts of Uttar Pradesh) and Nepal.
Description
Snout much depressed; eye rather small. Rostral much broader than long, just visible from above; internasals much shorter than the prefrontals; frontal as long as or a little shorter than its distance from the end of the snout, a little shorter than the parietals; loreal elongate, not entering the eye; one pre-ocular; two post-oculars; temporals small, 1 + 2; 9 or 10 upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye; 4 or 5 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are longer than the posterior.
Dorsal scales smooth, in 17 rows. Ventrals 167–175, not angulate laterally; anal divided; subcaudals 56–63, in two rows.
Coloration in alcohol (for preserved specimens): brown above, each scale with two white dots or short longitudinal lines; labials white; usually a white collar; lower surface uniform white.Boulenger, G. A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
Total length 35 cm (13{{frac|3|4}} inches); tail 6 cm (2{{frac|3|8}} inches).Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History), Volume I. London.
Gallery
File:AB120 Lycodon jara - underside of head.JPG
File:AB121 Lycodon jara - ventrals, anals & caudals.JPG
File:Rescued individual from Jalpaiguri, West Bengal..jpg|Rescued individual from Jalpaiguri, West Bengal
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References
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Other references
- Lanza, B. 1999 A new species of Lycodon from the Philippines, with a key to the genus (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae). Tropical Zoology 12: 89-104
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Category:Reptiles of Bangladesh
Category:Reptiles described in 1802
Category:Taxa named by George Shaw
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