| White-banded Wolf Snake | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Genus: | Dinodon |
| Species: | D. septentrionalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Dinodon septentrionalis (Günther, 1875) |
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| Synonyms | |
White-banded Wolf Snake, or Northern Large-toothed Snake, or Dinodon septentrionalis (dinodon: Neolatin from Greek δεινός "terrible" and ὀδούς "tooth"; septentrionalis: Latin "northern" from the phrase septem triones, meaning "seven plough oxen", indicating the seven stars of Ursa Major or Minor), is a species of snake.
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Snout moderately depressed, not spatulate; eye rather small. Rostral much broader than deep, visiblo from above; internasals much shorter than the prefrontals; frontal slightly longer than broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the panetals; loreal small, elongate, not entering the eye; one pre- and two postoculars ; temporals 2+3; 8 upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye; 5 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are longer than the posterior. Scales in 17 rows, those of seven middle rows feebly keeled. Ventrals 214, angulate laterally; anal entire; subcaudals 83, in two rows. Black above and on the sides, with narrow whitish transverse bands, forming complete annuli on the tail, the lower surface of which is dark brown; belly whitish, with a few scattered small brown spots posteriorly. Total length 3 feet; tail 8 inches.[1]