Lycodon liuchengchaoi ZHANG, JIANG, VOGEL & RAO, 2011

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	Chinese: 刘氏白环蛇
Synonym	Lycodon liuchengchaoi ZHANG, JIANG, VOGEL & RAO 2011 Lycodon liuchengchaoi — LEI et al. 2014 Lycodon luichengchaoi — GRISMER et al. 2014 (in error) Lycodon liuchengchaoi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 395 Lycodon liuchengchaoi — GAO et al. 2022
Distribution	China (Sichuan, Hunan, Fujian) Type locality: Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve (32.5439°N, 104.8322°E, elevation 1360m), Qingchuan County, Sichuan Province, P. R. China
Reproduction	oviparous.
Types	Holotype: CWNU 867001 (Figs. 1–3), an adult male. Collected by Qixiang Deng in July, 1986. Paratypes. CWNU84002, an adult female, collected from an elevation of 1230 m in the Tangjiahe, by Qixiang Deng on the same date as holotype; FMNH 15148, Monping, Szechwan (=Baoxing County, Sichuan Province), collected by Herbert Stevens, 28 August 1929.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Lycodon liuchengchaoi sp. nov. is distinguished from all other species of Lycodon by the following combination of characters: (1) 17 dorsal scale rows at midbody, several median rows feebly keeled; (2) 7–8 supralabials, the third and fourth or the third to fifth entering eye; (3) loreal entering orbit but not in contact with internasals; (4) anal divided; (5) more than 40 well-defined yellow rings evenly spaced along the entire length of the black body, and more than 10 yellow rings evenly spaced along the black tail; (6) hemipenis not forked at the tip. Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 678 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Habitat: floor of broad-leaved deciduous forest.
References	GAO, ZHIWEI; TIANYU QIAN, JIANPING JIANG, DEJIA HOU, XUEJIAN DENG & DAODE YANG. 2022. Species diversity and distribution of amphibians and reptiles in Hunan Province, China. Biodiversity Science 30 (2): 21290, 1–15 - get paper here GRISMER, L. LEE; EVAN S.H. QUAH, SHAHRUL ANUAR M.S,, MOHD ABDUL MUIN, PERRY L. WOOD, JR & SITI AZIZAH MOHD NOR 2014. A diminutive new species of cave-dwelling Wolf Snake (Colubridae: Lycodon Boie, 1826) from Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa 3815 (1): 051–067 - get paper here Janssen HY, Pham CT, Ngo HT, Le MD, Nguyen TQ, Ziegler T 2019. A new species of Lycodon Boie, 1826 (Serpentes, Colubridae) from northern Vietnam. ZooKeys 875: 1-29 - get paper here Kwet, Axel 2012. Liste der im Jahr 2011 neu beschriebenen Reptilien. Terraria-Elaphe 2012 (3): 46-57 - get paper here LEI, Juan; Xiaoyu SUN, Ke JIANG, Gernot VOGEL, David T. BOOTH, Li DING 2014. Multilocus Phylogeny of Lycodon and the Taxonomic Revision of Oligodon multizonatum. Asian Herpetological Research 5 (1): 26–37 - get paper here VOGEL, G., BRAGIN, A. M., POYARKOV, N. A., & VAN NGUYEN, T. A. N. 2025. A new limestone-associated species of wolf snake in the Lycodon fasciatus complex (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae) from central Vietnam. Zootaxa 5679(1), 1-44 - get paper here VOGEL, GERNOT; PATRICK DAVID 2019. A new species of the Lycodon fasciatus complex from the Khorat Plateau, eastern Thailand (Reptiles, Squamata, Colubridae). Zootaxa 4577 (3): 515–528 - get paper here Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp. Wang, Kai; Jinlong Ren, Hongman Chen, Zhitong Lyu, Xianguang Guo Ke Jiang, Jinmin Chen, Jiatang Li, Peng Guo, Yingyong Wang, Jing Che 2020. The updated checklists of amphibians and reptiles of China. Biodiversity Science 28 (2): 189-218 - get paper here Xinting, H., Tierui, Z., Maoliang, L., Wang, X., & Huang, S. 2025. Lycodon liuchengchaoi Found in Putian, Fujian Province, China, with Revision of L. fasciatus Record in Fujian. Ye Sheng Dong Wu Xue Bao= Chinese Journal of Wildlife, 46(2), 462 - get paper here ZHANG, JUN; KE JIANG, GERNOT VOGEL & DINGQI RAO 2011. A new species of the genus Lycodon (Squamata, Colubridae) from Sichuan Province, China. Zootaxa 2982: 59–68 - get paper here
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/390112523213352/ Google images

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