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Lycodon banksi LUU, BONKOWSKI, NGUYEN, LE, CALAME & ZIEGLER, 2018

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Banks’ Wolf Snake
G: Banks Wolfszahnnatter 
SynonymLycodon banksi LUU, BONKOWSKI, NGUYEN, LE, CALAME & ZIEGLER 2018 
DistributionLaos (Khammouane)

Type locality: karst forest, at the mouth of a cave, Phou Hin Poun NPA, Hinboun District, Khammouane Province, central Laos, at an elevation of 167 m.  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: VNUF R.2015.20 (field number: TK 20.15), adult male, collected on 4 April 2015 by Vinh Quang Luu and Thomas Calame. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Lycodon banksi sp. nov is characterized by the following morphological characters: (1) dorsal scales in 17-17-15 rows, dorsal scales on the anterior 2/3 of the body length smooth, the six central dorsal scale rows of the posterior 1/3 of the body length feebly keeled; (2) supralabials 8; (3) infralabials 10; (4) loreal entering orbit; (5) cloacal single; (6) ventral scales 241; (7) dorsal surface of body with 87 greyish yellow blotches; (8) ventral surface of body and tail uniformly grey cream.


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after the author’s “friend and colleague Chris Banks, International Coordinator, Philippine Crocodile National Recovery Team, Zoos Victoria, Australia, for his outstanding contributions towards amphibian and reptile conservation, in particular of the Philippine Crocodile.” 
References
  • 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
  • Luu, Vinh Quang; Michael Bonkowski, Truong Quang Nguyen, Minh Duc Le,, Thomas Calame & Thomas Ziegler 2018. A new species of Lycodon Boie, 1826 (Serpentes: Colubridae) from central Laos. Revue suisse de Zoologie 125(2): 263-276
 
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