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Lycodon sidiki
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<h2 id="etymology">Etymology</h2> <p>The specific name <i>sidiki</i> is due to honor of Indonesian herpetologist, Irvan Sidik, to his contributions for the herpetology.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="description">Description</h2> <p>The species can identified from other wolf snakes, by the absence of preocular scale and presence of keeled dorsal scales. Smaller snakes have bright orange-red venter and older snakes have creamy venter.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li>Wostl, E.; Hamidy, A.; Kurniawan, N.; Smith, E. N. (2017). "A new species of Wolf Snake of the genus <i>Lycodon</i> H. Boie in Fitzinger (Squamata: Colubridae) from the Aceh Province of northern Sumatra, Indonesia". <i>Zootaxa</i>. 4276 (4): 539–553. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.11646%2Fzootaxa.4276.4.6">10.11646/zootaxa.4276.4.6</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"A New Species of Wolf Snake of the Genus Lycodon H. Boie in Fitzinger (Squamata: Colubridae) from the Aceh Province of northern Sumatra, Indonesia". Zootaxa. 19 June 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2017. <a href="http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2017/06/lycodon-sidiki.html" target="_blank">http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2017/06/lycodon-sidiki.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"A New Species of Wolf Snake of the Genus Lycodon H. Boie in Fitzinger (Squamata: Colubridae) from the Aceh Province of northern Sumatra, Indonesia". Zootaxa. 19 June 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2017. <a href="http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2017/06/lycodon-sidiki.html" target="_blank">http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2017/06/lycodon-sidiki.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"A New Species of Wolf Snake of the Genus Lycodon H. Boie in Fitzinger (Squamata: Colubridae) from the Aceh Province of northern Sumatra, Indonesia". Zootaxa. 19 June 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2017. <a href="http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2017/06/lycodon-sidiki.html" target="_blank">http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2017/06/lycodon-sidiki.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>