Lycodon fasciatus

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Banded Wolf Snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Serpentes Family: Colubridae Genus: Lycodon Species: L. fasciatus
Binomial name
Lycodon fasciatus (Anderson, 1879)

Banded Wolf Snake Lycodon fasciatus is a species of snake. Distribution:

India (Assam),

Myanmar (= Burma), Thailand, Laos, Vietnam,

Tibet, SW China (from Yunnan and Guangxi to Hubei, northward to Shaanxi and gansu, Fujian, Sichuan)

[edit] External links

• EMBL reptile database

[edit] References

• Anderson, JOHN 1879 Anatomical and Zoological Researches: Comprising an Account of the Zoological Results of the Two Expeditions to Western Yunnan in 1866 and 1875; and a Monograph of the Two Cetacean Genera Platanista and Orcella. Bernard Quaritch, London "1878". Two volumes (Text: 985 pages [herpetology: pages 703-860, 969-975]; Atlas: 85 plates [herpetological plates 55-78, 75A, 75B]).
• Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
• Daltry, J.C. & Wüster, W. 2002 A new species of Wolf Snake (Serpentes: ColubridaLycodon) from the Cardamom Mountains, Southwestern Cambodia. Herpetologica 58 (4): 498-504