| twin-spotted wolf snake | |
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| Lycodon jara from North Bengal | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Colubrinae |
| Genus: | Lycodon |
| Species: | L. jara |
| Binomial name | |
| Lycodon jara (Shaw, 1802)[1] |
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| Synonyms | |
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Coluber jara Shaw, 1802 |
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The twin-spotted wolf snake (Lycodon jara) is a species of colubrid snake.
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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.
Snout much depressed; eye rather small. Rostral much broader than long, just visible from above; internasals much shorter than the prefrontals; frontal as long as or a little shorter than its distance from the end of the snout, a little shorter than the parietals; loreal elongate, not entering the eye; one pre-ocular; two post-oculars; temporals small, 1 + 2; 9 or 10 upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye; 4 or 5 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, in 17 rows. Ventrals 167-175, not angulate laterally; anal divided; subcaudals 56-63, in two rows. [Coloration in alcohol:] brown above, each scale with two white dots or short longitudinal lines; labials white; usually a white collar; lower surface uniform white.[3]
Total length 35 cm (13¾ inches); tail 6 cm (2⅜ inches).[4]