Lycodon
Encyclopedia
Lycodon is a genus of colubrid
snakes, commonly known as wolf snakes. The New Latin
name Lycodon is derived from the Greek
words λύκος (lykos) meaning wolf and δόν (don) meaning tooth, and refers to the fang-like anterior maxillary
and mandibular
teeth.
Colubrid
A colubrid is a member of the snake family Colubridae. This broad classification of snakes includes about two-thirds of all snake species on earth. The earliest species of the snake family date back to the Oligocene epoch. With 304 genera and 1,938 species, Colubridae is the largest snake family...
snakes, commonly known as wolf snakes. The New Latin
New Latin
The term New Latin, or Neo-Latin, is used to describe the Latin language used in original works created between c. 1500 and c. 1900. Among other uses, Latin during this period was employed in scholarly and scientific publications...
name Lycodon is derived from the Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
words λύκος (lykos) meaning wolf and δόν (don) meaning tooth, and refers to the fang-like anterior maxillary
Maxillary
Maxillary means "related to the maxilla ". Terms containing "maxillary" include:*Maxillary artery*Maxillary nerve*Maxillary prominence*Maxillary sinus...
and mandibular
Mandibular
Mandibular may refer to:* Mandible, the lower jaw bone* Mandibular canal* Mandibular nerve...
teeth.
Taxonomy
The genus Lycodon comprises 35 recognized species.- Lycodon alcalai Ota & Ross, 1994
- Lycodon aulicusLycodon aulicusThe Indian wolf snake is a species of nonvenomous snake found in South Asia and Southeast Asia. Early naturalists have suggested its resemblance to the venomous common krait as an instance of Batesian mimicry.-Description:...
(Linnaeus, 1758) - Lycodon bibonius Ota & Ross, 1994
- Lycodon butleri BoulengerGeorge Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
, 1900 - Lycodon capucinusLycodon capucinusLycodon capucinus also known as the common wolf snake is a species of colubrid snake, which is found in the Indo-Australian Archipelago.-Distribution:...
BoieFriedrich BoieFriedrich Boie was a German scientist and brother of Heinrich Boie. He was born at Meldorf in Holstein and died at Kiel....
, 1827 - Lycodon cardimomensis Daltry & Wüster, 2002
- Lycodon chrysoprateros Ota & Ross, 1994
- Lycodon dumerili (BoulengerGeorge Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
, 1893) - Lycodon effraenis CantorTheodore Edward CantorTheodore Edward Cantor was a Danish physician, zoologist and botanist.Cantor worked for the British East India Company. He made natural history collections in Penang and Malacca...
, 1847 - Lycodon fasciatusLycodon fasciatusThe banded wolf snake, Lycodon fasciatus, is a species of colubrid snake.-Distribution:It is found in India , Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Tibet, SW China...
(AndersonJohn Anderson (zoologist)John Anderson was a Scottish anatomist and zoologist who worked in India.He was born in Edinburgh and graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1861. His thesis however was in zoology...
, 1879) - Lycodon fausti Gaulke, 2002
- Lycodon ferroni Lanza, 1999
- Lycodon flavicollis Mukherjee & Bhupathy, 2007
- Lycodon flavomaculatusLycodon flavomaculatusThe yellow-spotted wolf snake is a species of colubrid snake found in the Western Ghats of India.-References:* Lanza,B. 1999 A new species of Lycodon from the Philippines, with a key to the genus . Tropical Zoology 12: 89-104* Wall, Frank 1907 Some new Asian snakes. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 17 :...
WallFrank WallFrank Wall was a physician and herpetologist who lived in Sri Lanka and India.Wall was born in Colombo, Ceylon . His father worked there and was responsible for initiating the study of natural history on the island. Wall studied medicine in London and joined the Indian Medical Service in 1893...
, 1907 - Lycodon futsingensis (PopeClifford H. PopeCliford Hillhouse Pope was a noted American herpetologist. He was the son of Mark Cooper Pope and Harriett Alexander Pope, and grew up in Washington, Georgia. Shortly after his graduation from the University of Virginia, Pope went to the Tropical Research Station at British Guiana, maintained...
, 1928) - Lycodon gongshan Vogel & Luo, 2011
- Lycodon jaraLycodon jaraThe twin-spotted wolf snake is a species of colubrid snake.-Distribution: It is found in India, Nepal, Java and Bangladesh. More specifically, this snake is known from Assam, northern Orissa Ganjam, Arunachal Pradesh, Bangladesh, Nepal and parts of Uttar Pradesh.-Description:Snout much depressed;...
(ShawGeorge ShawGeorge Shaw was an English botanist and zoologist.Shaw was born at Bierton, Buckinghamshire and was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, receiving his M.A. in 1772. He took up the profession of medical practitioner. In 1786 he became the assistant lecturer in botany at Oxford University...
, 1802) - Lycodon kundui SmithMalcolm Arthur SmithMalcolm Arthur Smith was a herpetologist and physician working in the Malay Peninsula.-Early life:He was interested in reptiles and amphibians from an early age...
, 1943 - Lycodon laoensisLycodon laoensisThe Laotian wolf snake, Lycodon laoensis, is a species of colubrid snake.-Distribution:It is found in India, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, China , and West Malaysia.-Description:...
Günther, 1864 - Lycodon mackinnoniLycodon mackinnoniMackinnon's wolf snake, Lycodon mackinnoni, is a species of colubrid snake found in Pakistan .-References:* Lanza,B. 1999 A new species of Lycodon from the Philippines, with a key to the genus . Tropical Zoology 12: 89-104* Wall,F. 1906 A new Himalayan snake . J. Bombay NHS xvii: 29-30* Wall,F...
WallFrank WallFrank Wall was a physician and herpetologist who lived in Sri Lanka and India.Wall was born in Colombo, Ceylon . His father worked there and was responsible for initiating the study of natural history on the island. Wall studied medicine in London and joined the Indian Medical Service in 1893...
, 1906 - Lycodon muelleri DumérilAndré Marie Constant DumérilAndré Marie Constant Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of anatomy at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle from 1801 to 1812, when he became professor of herpetology and ichthyology...
, BibronGabriel BibronGabriel Bibron was a French zoologist. He was born in Paris. Son of an employee of the Museum national d'histoire naturelle, he had a good foundation in natural history and was hired to collect vertebrates in Italy and Sicily. He classified a number of reptile species with André Marie Constant...
& DumérilAuguste DumérilAuguste Henri André Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of Herpetology and Ichthyology at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1857. His father André Marie Constant Duméril was also a zoologist...
, 1854 - Lycodon multifasciatus (Maki, 1931)
- Lycodon ophiophagus Vogel et al., 2009
- Lycodon osmanhilliLycodon osmanhilliThe Colombo wolf snake is a species of colubrid snake found in Sri Lanka.-References:Taylor, E.H. 1950. A brief review of Ceylonese snakes. Univ. Kans. Sci. Bull. 33:519-603....
TaylorEdward Harrison TaylorEdward Harrison Taylor was an American herpetologist from Kansas.He was born in Maysville, Missouri and studied at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, graduating with a B.A. in 1912. Subsequently, he went to the Philippines, where at first he held a teacher's post in a village in central...
, 1950 - Lycodon paucifasciatus Rendahl in SmithMalcolm Arthur SmithMalcolm Arthur Smith was a herpetologist and physician working in the Malay Peninsula.-Early life:He was interested in reptiles and amphibians from an early age...
, 1943 - Lycodon ruhstrati (Fischer, 1886)
- Lycodon solivagus Ota & Ross, 1994
- Lycodon stormi BoettgerOskar BoettgerOskar Boettger was a German zoologist who was a native of Frankfurt am Main. He was an uncle of the noted malacologist Caesar Rudolf Boettger ....
, 1892 - Lycodon striatusLycodon striatusThe northern wolf snake Lycodon striatus is a species of nonvenomous colubrid snake.-Geographic range:It is found in Sri Lanka, NW India , Pakistan, S Turkmenistan , W Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, E/NE Iran, and Afghanistan....
(ShawGeorge ShawGeorge Shaw was an English botanist and zoologist.Shaw was born at Bierton, Buckinghamshire and was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, receiving his M.A. in 1772. He took up the profession of medical practitioner. In 1786 he became the assistant lecturer in botany at Oxford University...
, 1802) - Lycodon subcinctus BoieFriedrich BoieFriedrich Boie was a German scientist and brother of Heinrich Boie. He was born at Meldorf in Holstein and died at Kiel....
, 1827 - Lycodon synaptor Vogel & David, 2010
- Lycodon tessellatus JanGiorgio JanGiorgio Jan was an Italian taxonomist, zoologist, botanist, herpetologist, and writer. He is also known as Georg Jan or Georges Jan....
, 1863 - Lycodon tiwariiLycodon tiwariiThe Andaman wolf snake is a species of colubrid snake found in the Andaman Islands of India....
Biswas & Sanyal, 1965 - Lycodon travancoricusLycodon travancoricusThe Travancore wolf snake is a species of colubrid snake.-Distribution:It is found in Pakistan and India .-Description:...
(BeddomeRichard Henry BeddomeColonel Richard Henry Beddome was a British military officer in India, chief conservator of the Madras Forest Department and a naturalist...
, 1870) - Lycodon zawiLycodon zawiZaw's wolf snake is a species of nonvenomous colubrid snake.-Description:Lycodon zawi is black with white bands. It can grow to .5 m in total length.-Habitat:...
SlowinskiJoseph Bruno SlowinskiJoseph Bruno "Joe" Slowinski, Ph.D was an American herpetologist who worked extensively with elapid snakes.He was born on November 15, 1962 in New York City, New York...
et al., 2001