Lycodon ferroni LANZA, 1999

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Ferron’s Asian Wolf Snake
Synonym	Lycodon ferroni LANZA 1999: 90 Lycodon ferroni — CORTI 2013 Lycodon ferroni — WALLACH et al. 2014: 393
Distribution	Philippines (Samar Island) Type locality: Lungib Ginbagsangan, 12°00’00” N, 124°55’40” E, about 32 km by air NNE of Catbalogan, 40 m elevation [Barrio Kag-toto-Og, Provincia Samara Occidnetal (= western Samar Province)], Samar Island, CE Philippines.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MZUF 36690, young male, Museo Zoologica Unviversità Firenze. Named after Cédric Ferron, the collector of the holotype.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (n=1): This species differs from its congeners except dumerili in the following combination of characters: 17 rows of midbody scales; dorsals smooth; more than 100 subcaudals; dorsal light cross-bands evident throughout body and tail, less than 20 on the body, less than 15 on the tail. From L. dumerili it differs in having: 10 supralabials (IV-VI entering eye) instead of 9 (IV-V); dorsals reducing to 15 at the level of ventral 119 instead of those of ventrals 131-145; body and tail with dark annuli (at least in the only specimen known, a juvenile) (Fig. 2) instead of dorsal dark cross-bands which, in juveniles as well, never encroach entirely on the adjoining ventrals (Fig. 3); internasal suture seemingly longer, its length corresponding to 34.4% of that of the prefrontal suture (21.1-32.8% in L. dumerili). (Lanza 1999) 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 4565 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
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Etymology	Named after Cedric Ferron, a French speleologist who collected the snake holotype while on a caving expedition to Samar, Philippines.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Corti, C. 2013. To Benedetto Lanza, 89 yrs, President of the SEH from 1985 to 1993. Amphibia-Reptilia 34 (3): 295-303 - get paper here Gaulke, M. 2002. A new species of Lycodon from Panay Island, Philippines (Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae). Spixiana 25 (1): 85-92 - 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 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 - get paper here Nistri, Annamaria 2010. The herpetology collection of the zoology section “La Specola” of the Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università di Firenze. Museologia Scientifica Memorie 2010 (5): 118-128 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. Weinell, Jeffrey L.; Errol Hooper, Alan E. Leviton, Rafe M. Brown 2019. Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (4) 66 (1): 1-49 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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