Lycodon flavozonatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Lycodon
Species: Lycodon flavozonatus

Name

Lycodon flavozonatus (Pope, 1928)

• Holotype: AMNH 34371, ♂, collected by Clifford H. Pope between April-September 1926.
• Type locality: “Ch'ungan Hsien, northwest Fukien Province, China”.

Combinations

• Dinodon flavozonatum Pope, 1928: 2 [original combination]
• Dinodon flavozonatus — Smith, 1943: 271 [subsequent combination, incorrect gender agreement]
• Lycodon flavozonatus — Guo, Zhang, Liu, Li, Pyron Jiang & Burbrink, 2013 [subsequent combination, by implication]

References

Primary references

• Pope, C.H. 1928. Four new snakes and a new lizard from South China. American Museum Novitates 325: 1–4. hdl: 2246/3716 Reference page. 
• Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, including the whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. Taylor and Francis: London. xii + 583 pp., 166 text figures. PDF Reference page. 

Additional references

• Zhao, E. & Adler, K. 1993. Herpetology of China. SSAR, Oxford/Ohio, 1-522.

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Lycodon flavozonatus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 31 July 2020.
• Wang, Y. & Ji, X. 2012. IUCN: Lycodon flavozonatus  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T191948A2019781. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T191948A2019781.en

Vernacular names

English: Yellow-Spotted Wolf Snake