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Lycodon sealei LEVITON, 1955

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Seale’s Banded Asian Wolf Snake 
SynonymOphites subcinctus — TAYLOR 1922: 124 (fide LEVITON et al. 2018: 440)
Lycodon subcinctus sealei LEVITON 1955
Lycodon subcinctus sealei — OTA & ROSS 1994
Lycodon subcinctus sealei — GAULKE 2002
Lycodon sealei — LEVITON et al. 2018
Lycodon sealei — WEINELL et al. 2019
Lycodon sealei — LIU et al. 2023 
DistributionMalaysia (East Malaysia); Philippines (Palawan)

Type locality: Puerto Princesa, Palawan Id., Philippines  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesHolotype: CAS 15819 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy: Wallach et al. 2014: 681 listed this species as synonym of Lycodon subcinctus.

Distribution: not in Borneo fide Das 2023. 
EtymologyNamed for Alvin Seale (1871 – 1958), Stanford zoologist, ichthyologist, and explorer, who collected the type and several of the paratypes. 
References
  • Das, Indraneil 2023. Snakes of a Continental Island: History and Patterns of Discovery of the Snake Fauna of Borneo to the Start of the Anthropocene. In: Lillywhite & Martins, eds., Islands and snakes, vol. II. Oxford University Press, p. 1 ff - 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
  • Leviton, A. E., 1955. Systematic notes on the Asian snake Lycodon subcinctus. Philippine J. Sci. 84: 195-203.
  • Leviton, Alan E.; Cameron D. Siler, Jeffrey L. Weinell, and Rafe M. Brown 2018. Synopsis of the Snakes of the Philippines. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 64 (14): 399-568 - get paper here
  • Liu, S., Hou, M., Cai, B., Li, S., Zhang, Z., Yu, R., ... & Zhang, L. 2023. Taxonomic status of Lycodon subcinctus sensu lato in China (Serpentes, Colubridae). Herpetozoa, 36: 307-316 - get paper here
  • Ota H. & Ross C. A. 1994. Four new species of Lycodon (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the northern Philippines. Copeia 1994 (1): 159-174. - get paper here
  • Supsup CE, Asis AA, Carestia Jr UV, Diesmos AC, Mallari NAD, Brown RM 2020. Variation in species richness, composition and herpetological community structure across a tropical habitat gradient of Palawan Island, Philippines. Herpetozoa 33: 95-111 - get paper here
  • Taylor, E.H. 1922. The snakes of the Philippine Islands. Manila (Bureau of Printing or Science), Monograph 16: 312 pp. - get paper here
  • 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
 
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