Lycodon

Lycodon
Lycodon aulicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Colubrinae
Genus:	Lycodon Fitzinger, 1826[1]
Species
See text.
Synonyms
Cercaspis, Leptorhytaon, Ophites, Sphecodes, Tetragonosoma, Tytleria[2]

Lycodon subcinctus, Malayan banded wolfsnake, in Letefoho, East Timor

Lycodon is a genus of colubrid snakes, commonly known as wolf snakes.^[3] The New Latin name Lycodon is derived from the Greek words λύκος (lykos) meaning wolf and οδόν (odon) meaning tooth,^[4] and refers to the fang-like anterior maxillary and mandibular teeth.^[2]

Species

The genus Lycodon comprises 51 recognized species.^[5]

• Lycodon alcalai Ota & Ross, 1994
• Lycodon aulicus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Lycodon bibonius Ota & Ross, 1994
• Lycodon butleri Boulenger, 1900
• Lycodon capucinus F. Boie, 1827
• Lycodon cardamomensis Daltry & Wüster, 2002
• Lycodon carinatus (Kuhl, 1820)
• Lycodon cavernicolus Grismer et al., 2011
• Lycodon chrysoprateros Ota & Ross, 1994
• Lycodon davidi G. Vogel et al., 2012
• Lycodon dumerili (Boulenger, 1893)
• Lycodon effraenis Cantor, 1847
• Lycodon fasciatus (J. Anderson, 1879)
• Lycodon fausti Gaulke, 2002
• Lycodon ferroni Lanza, 1999
• Lycodon flavicollis Mukherjee & Bhupathy, 2007
• Lycodon flavomaculatus Wall, 1907
• Lycodon flavozonatus (Pope, 1928)
• Lycodon futsingensis (Pope, 1928)
• Lycodon gammiei (Blanford, 1878)
• Lycodon gongshan G. Vogel & Luo, 2011
• Lycodon hypsirhinoides (Theobald, 1868)
• Lycodon jara (Shaw, 1802)
• Lycodon kundui M.A. Smith, 1943
• Lycodon laoensis Günther, 1864
• Lycodon liuchengchaoi Zhang et al., 2011
• Lycodon mackinnoni Wall, 1906
• Lycodon meridionale (Bourret, 1935)
• Lycodon muelleri A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854
• Lycodon multifasciatus (Maki, 1931)
• Lycodon multizonatus (Zhao & Jiang, 1981)
• Lycodon odishii Mallik et al., 2014
• Lycodon ophiophagus G. Vogel et al., 2009
• Lycodon orientalis (Hilgendorf, 1880)
• Lycodon osmanhilli Taylor, 1950
• Lycodon paucifasciatus Rendahl in M.A. Smith, 1943
• Lycodon rosozonatus (Hu & Zhao, 1972)
• Lycodon rufozonatus Cantor, 1842
• Lycodon ruhstrati (Fischer, 1886)
• Lycodon semicarinatus (Cope, 1860)
• Lycodon septentrionalis (Günther, 1875)
• Lycodon solivagus Ota & Ross, 1994
• Lycodon stormi Boettger, 1892
• Lycodon striatus (Shaw, 1802)
• Lycodon subcinctus F. Boie, 1827
• Lycodon synaptor G. Vogel & David, 2010
• Lycodon tessellatus Jan, 1863
• Lycodon tiwarii Biswas & Sanyal, 1965
• Lycodon travancoricus (Beddome, 1870)
• Lycodon zawi Slowinski et al., 2001^[6]
• Lycodon zoosvictoriae Neang et al., 2014

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Lycodon.

References

1. Fitzinger LI. 1826. Neue Classification der Reptilien nach ihren natürlichen Verwandtschaften. Nebst einer Verwandtschafts-tafel und einem Verzeichnisse der Reptilien-Sammlung des K.K. zoologischen Museums zu Wien. Vienna: J.G. Heubner, five unnumbered + 67 pp. + one plate. (Lycodon, new genus, p. 57). (in German and Latin).
2. 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).
3. http://www.britannica.com
4. Mish FC (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).
5. Uetz, Peter; Hallermann, Jakob. "Lycodon". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
6. "Lycodon zawi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.