Menu
Home
People
Places
Arts
History
Plants & Animals
Science
Life & Culture
Technology
Reference.org
Lycodon
open-in-new
<h2 id="fossil-record">Fossil record</h2> <p>Fossils of <i>Lycodon</i> are known from the <a href="/facts/Early_Pliocene/K7mtLXlg">Early Pliocene</a> of <a href="/facts/Henan/jCKtYLXv">Henan</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="species">Species</h2> <p>The genus <i>Lycodon</i> comprises 73 recognized <a href="/facts/Species/oDg6b96r">species</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_albofuscus/WbLQDRbt">Lycodon albofuscus</a></i> (<a href="/facts/Andr%C3%A9_Marie_Constant_Dum%C3%A9ril/jy5EwTst">A.M.C. Duméril</a>, <a href="/facts/Gabriel_Bibron/qDXaUMcu">Bibron</a> & <a href="/facts/Auguste_Dum%C3%A9ril/xVHMXMFL">A.H.A. Duméril</a>, 1854) – dark wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_alcalai/dcMxENy4">Lycodon alcalai</a></i> Ota & Ross, 1994 – Alcala's wolf snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon anakradaya</i> A.T. Nguyen, Duong, Wood & Grismer, 2022</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_anamallensis/DaA8EoMa">Lycodon anamallensis</a></i> <a href="/facts/Albert_G%C3%BCnther/SQzexVaS">Günther</a>, 1864 – Colombo wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_aulicus/FRHHNNqz">Lycodon aulicus</a></i> (<a href="/facts/Carl_Linnaeus/gy5HWkHS">Linnaeus</a>, <a href="/facts/10th_edition_of_Systema_Naturae/8H6KJrLJ">1758</a>) – Indian wolf snake, common wolf snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon banksi</i> Luu et al., 2018 – Banks's wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_bibonius/PcKcWf24">Lycodon bibonius</a></i> Ota & Ross, 1994 – Ota's wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_bicolor/DLchnDBD">Lycodon bicolor</a></i> (<a href="/facts/Alexander_Nikolsky/3aMsBcSo">Nikolsky</a>, 1903) – Mackinnon's wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_butleri/3CekvIA4">Lycodon butleri</a></i> <a href="/facts/George_Albert_Boulenger/s50REt6N">Boulenger</a>, 1900 – Butler's wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_capucinus/ywG5CHsj">Lycodon capucinus</a></i> <a href="/facts/Friedrich_Boie/U3AmgfCQ">F. Boie</a>, 1827 – common wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_cardamomensis/I3rxCgPM">Lycodon cardamomensis</a></i> Daltry & <a href="/facts/Wolfgang_W%C3%BCster/2F1z8Nf7">Wüster</a>, 2002</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_carinatus/8hDKsUjF">Lycodon carinatus</a></i> (<a href="/facts/Heinrich_Kuhl/Xz5gbv7a">Kuhl</a>, 1820) – Ceylon wolf snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon cathaya</i> J. Wang, Qi, Lyu, Zeng & Y.-Y. Wang, 2020 – Huaping wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_cavernicolus/Ua01DHMN">Lycodon cavernicolus</a></i> Grismer et al., 2011 – Gua Wang Burma wolf snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon chapaensis</i> (<a href="/facts/Fernand_Angel/ADMqIv9r">Angel</a> & <a href="/facts/Ren%C3%A9_L%C3%A9on_Bourret/eW5pblrW">Bourret</a>, 1933) – Namdong wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_chithrasekarai/A2zIyYs6">Lycodon chithrasekarai</a></i> <a href="/facts/Mendis_Wickramasinghe/xHcHhrtD">Wickramasinghe</a> et al., 2020 – Chithrasekara's bridle snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_chrysoprateros/mRgJ9T0D">Lycodon chrysoprateros</a></i> Ota & Ross, 1994 – Ross's wolf snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon davidi</i> G. Vogel et al., 2012 – David's wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_davisonii/k7g3gg5S">Lycodon davisonii</a></i> (<a href="/facts/William_Thomas_Blanford/4mkS2gpM">Blanford</a>, 1878) – Blanford's bridal snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_deccanensis/NcB943Wn">Lycodon deccanensis</a></i> Ganesh, Deuti, Punith, Achyuthan, Mallik, Adhikari & G. Vogel, 2020</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_dumerili/hToWJfLE">Lycodon dumerili</a></i> (<a href="/facts/George_Albert_Boulenger/s50REt6N">Boulenger</a>, 1893) – Duméril's wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_effraenis/Rmm4H31R">Lycodon effraenis</a></i> <a href="/facts/Theodore_Edward_Cantor/vrcxB13u">Cantor</a>, 1847 – brown wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_fasciatus/RNSGPorS">Lycodon fasciatus</a></i> (<a href="/facts/John_Anderson_(zoologist)/wYLMo5xz">J. Anderson</a>, 1879)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_fasciolatus/D87UYUnP">Lycodon fasciolatus</a></i> (<a href="/facts/George_Shaw_(biologist)/4qkHMjgS">Shaw</a>, 1802) – banded wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_fausti/svprreUo">Lycodon fausti</a></i> Gaulke, 2002 – Faust's wolf snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon ferroni</i> Lanza, 1999 – Ferron's Asian wolf snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon flavicollis</i> Mukherjee & Bhupathy, 2007 – yellow-collared wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_flavomaculatus/3Y79ld8w">Lycodon flavomaculatus</a></i> <a href="/facts/Frank_Wall_(herpetologist)/mVCSS1xz">Wall</a>, 1907 – yellow-spotted wolf snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon flavozonatus</i> (<a href="/facts/Clifford_H._Pope/jTlMGavS">Pope</a>, 1928) – yellow-banded big tooth snake, yellow-spotted wolf snake, big-tooth snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_futsingensis/XskTVCsz">Lycodon futsingensis</a></i> (Pope, 1928)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_gammiei/k6JCaWl2">Lycodon gammiei</a></i> (Blanford, 1878) – Gammie's wolf snake, Sikkim false wolf snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon gibsonae</i> G. Vogel & David, 2019 – Gibson's wolf snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon gongshan</i> G. Vogel & Luo, 2011 – Gongshan wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_gracilis/9hYdjAXh">Lycodon gracilis</a></i> (Günther, 1864) – scarce bridal snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon hypsirhinoides</i> (<a href="/facts/William_Theobald/RjFxxcPS">Theobald</a>, 1868)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_jara/62cgVQn8">Lycodon jara</a></i> (Shaw, 1802) – twin-spotted wolf snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon kundui</i> <a href="/facts/Malcolm_Arthur_Smith/1M9WF3f0">M.A. Smith</a>, 1943</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_laoensis/0Vmujf6f">Lycodon laoensis</a></i> Günther, 1864 – Laotian wolf snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon liuchengchaoi</i> Zhang et al., 2011</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_meridionalis/rvN8or3G">Lycodon meridionalis</a></i> (Bourret, 1935)</li> <li><i>Lycodon muelleri</i> A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 – Müller's wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_multifasciatus/o5Px16BM">Lycodon multifasciatus</a></i> (Maki, 1931)</li> <li><i>Lycodon multizonatus</i> (Zhao & Y.-M. Jiang, 1981) – Luding wolf snake, Luding Kukri snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon namdongensis</i> Luu, Ziegler, Ha, Le & Hoang, 2019<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_nympha/JCDTfQWd">Lycodon nympha</a></i> (<a href="/facts/Fran%C3%A7ois_Marie_Daudin/vkhDeknM">Daudin</a>, 1803) – Vellore bridal snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon obvelatus</i> K. Wang, Yu, G. Vogel & Che, 2020 – recluse wolf snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon ophiophagus</i> G. Vogel et al., 2009 – snake-eater wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_orientalis/MNTTTvfM">Lycodon orientalis</a></i> (<a href="/facts/Franz_Martin_Hilgendorf/LVvmbPHf">Hilgendorf</a>, 1880) – Oriental odd-tooth snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon paucifasciatus</i> Rendahl <i>in</i> M.A. Smith, 1943 – Rendahl's wolf snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon philippinus</i> Griffin, 1909 – Philippine dryocalamus</li> <li><i>Lycodon pictus</i> Janssen, Pham, Ngo, Le, T.Q. Nguyen & Ziegler, 2019</li> <li><i>Lycodon rosozonatus</i> (Hu & Zhao, 1972) – rose big-tooth snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_rufozonatus/QoPPgHWh">Lycodon rufozonatus</a></i> Cantor, 1842 – red-banded snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_ruhstrati/Xa7Tb9HT">Lycodon ruhstrati</a></i> (Fischer, 1886) – mountain wolf snake, Formosa wolf snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon sealei</i> Leviton, 1955 – Seale's banded Asian wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_semicarinatus/wcDQmXMD">Lycodon semicarinatus</a></i> (<a href="/facts/Edward_Drinker_Cope/Wup4Ic7k">Cope</a>, 1860) – Loo-Choo big-tooth snake, Ryukyu odd-tooth snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_septentrionalis/bmKHjtTV">Lycodon septentrionalis</a></i> (Günther, 1875) – white-banded wolf snake, northern large-toothed snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon serratus</i> K. Wang, Yu, G. Vogel & Che, 2020 – serrate-banded wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_sidiki/BhH9jrPD">Lycodon sidiki</a></i> Wostl, Hamidy, Kurniawan & E.N. Smith, 2017</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_solivagus/aY3et9a2">Lycodon solivagus</a></i> Ota & Ross, 1994 – common wolf snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon stormi</i> <a href="/facts/Oskar_Boettger/jtVQqrWe">Boettger</a>, 1892 – Sulawesi wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_striatus/KeApHvet">Lycodon striatus</a></i> (Shaw, 1802) – northern wolf snake, barred wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_subannulatus/6jyWGp0F">Lycodon subannulatus</a></i> (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) – Malayan bridal snake, southern bridle snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_subcinctus/JWHw7LV3">Lycodon subcinctus</a></i> F. Boie, 1827 – Malayan banded wolf snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon synaptor</i> G. Vogel & David, 2010 – Boehme's wolf snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon tessellatus</i> <a href="/facts/Giorgio_Jan/vg7f8B3J">Jan</a>, 1863 – Manila wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_tiwarii/mszNPgbu">Lycodon tiwarii</a></i> Biswas & Sanyal, 1965 – Andaman wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_travancoricus/S1vpnfrH">Lycodon travancoricus</a></i> (<a href="/facts/Richard_Henry_Beddome/MuozcLsX">Beddome</a>, 1870) – Travancore wolf snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon tristrigatus</i> Günther, 1858</li> <li><i>Lycodon truongi</i> A.T. Nguyen, Duong, Wood & Grismer, 2022 – Truong's wolf snake</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_zawi/BMCpbV2I">Lycodon zawi</a></i> <a href="/facts/Joseph_Bruno_Slowinski/j43cblGl">Slowinski</a> et al., 2001<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> – Zaw's wolf snake</li> <li><i>Lycodon zayuensis</i> K. Jiang, Wang, Jin & Che, 2020</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Lycodon_zoosvictoriae/mc3hTjGS">Lycodon zoosvictoriae</a></i> Neang et al., 2014 – Zoos Victoria's wolf snake</li></ul> <p><i><a href="/facts/Nota_bene/q7trSJUH">Nota bene</a></i>: A <a href="/facts/Binomial_nomenclature/jgBqAhPv">binomial authority</a> in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than <i>Lycodon</i>. </p><p>In 2024, an other species of lycodon was discovered: <i>lycodon neomaculatus</i>, the Indochinese Banded Wolfsnake. </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Home". britannica.com. <a href="http://www.britannica.com/" target="_blank">http://www.britannica.com/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Mish, Frederick C. (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). <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>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). <a href="/wiki/George_Albert_Boulenger" target="_blank">/wiki/George_Albert_Boulenger</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Shi, Jingsong; Wang, Yuan; Messenger, Kevin Robert; Jiangzuo, Qigao; Chen, Yu; Jin, Changzhu (2 January 2023). "Early Pliocene fossil snakes (Squamata, Colubroidea) with various teeth from the fissure deposit in Queshan, Henan, China". Historical Biology: 1–22. doi:10.1080/08912963.2022.2161382. ISSN 0891-2963. Retrieved 21 September 2024 – via Taylor and Francis Online. <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2022.2161382" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2022.2161382</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Uetz, Peter; Hallermann, Jakob. "Lycodon ". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 11 June 2015. <a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Peter_Uetz" target="_blank">https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Peter_Uetz</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Luu, Vinh Quang; Ziegler, Thomas; Ha, Nghia Van; Le, Minh Duc; Hoang, Tuoi Thi (2019-04-17). "A new species of Lycodon Boie, 1826 (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam". Zootaxa. 4586 (2). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4586.2.3. ISSN 1175-5334. <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332462303" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332462303</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Species Lycodon zawi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org. <a href="http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species.php?genus=Lycodon&species=zawi" target="_blank">http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species.php?genus=Lycodon&species=zawi</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>