Lycodon striatus

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Northern Wolf Snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Lycodon
Species: L. striatus
Binomial name
Lycodon striatus
(Shaw, 1802)

Northern Wolf Snake Lycodon striatus is a species of snake. Distribution: Sri Lanka, NW India (Maharashtra), Pakistan, USSR, S Turkmenistan (Kopet-Dagh), W Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, E/NE Iran, Afghanistan bicolor: Pakistan

Type locality: Vizagapatam and Hyderabad



[edit] References

  • Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
  • Chernov, Sergius A. 1935 New material on the distribution of the Indian snake Lycodon striatus (Shaw) (Ophidia, Colubridae) in Soviet Middle Asia Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de l'Academie des Sciences de l'URSS 3 (4): 189-192
  • Lanza,B. 1999 A new species of Lycodon from the Philippines, with a key to the genus (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae). Tropical Zoology 12: 89-104
  • Shaw, G. 1802 General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Vol.3, part 1 + 2. G. Kearsley, Thomas Davison, London: 313-615
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