Lycodon jara
Lycodon jara | |
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a twin-spotted wolf snake from North Bengal | |
Conservation status | |
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] | |
Synonyms | |
Coluber jara Shaw, 1802 | |
Lycodon jara, commonly known as the twin-spotted wolf snake, is a species of colubrid snake. It is endemic to Asia.
Distribution
Description
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.
Dorsal 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]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Shaw, G. 1802 General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Vol.3, part 1 + 2. G. Kearsley, Thomas Davison, London: 313-615
- ↑ Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History), Volume I. London.
- ↑ Boulenger, G. A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
- ↑ Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History), Volume I. London.
Other references
- 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