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Lycodon albofuscus (DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL, 1854)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Dark Wolf Snake
G: Dunkle Wolfszahnnatter 
SynonymSphecodes albo-fuscus DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 394
Sphecodes albo-fuscus DUMÉRIL 1853 (nom. nud., generic name not latinized)
Sphecodes albofuscus — BLEEKER 1858
Ophites albofuscus — GÜNTHER 1858
Ophites albofuscus — BOULENGER 1885: 389
Lycodon albofuscus — BOULENGER 1893: 357
Lepturophis borneensis BOULENGER 1900: 183
Lepturophis borneensis — GRANDISON 1972: 87
Lepturophis borneensis — GRANDISON 1978
Lycodon albofuscus — MANTHEY 1983
Lepturophis borneensis — MURPHY et al. 1994
Lepturophis albofuscus — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 359
Lepturophis borneensis — COX et al. 1998: 64
Lepturophis albofuscus — CHAN-ARD et al. 1999: 169
Lycodon albofuscus — LANZA 1999
Lepturophis borneensis — STUEBING & INGER 1999
Lepturophis albofuscus — HIEN et al. 2001
Lepturophis albofuscus — GRISMER et al. 2002
Lycodon albofuscus — DAS & YAAKOB 2007
Lycodon albofuscus — DAS 2012
Lepturophis albofuscus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 370
Lepturophis albofuscus — STUEBING et al. 2014
Lycodon albofuscus — FIGUEROA et al. 2016 
DistributionIndonesia (Sumatra, Nias); Thailand (Narathiwat, Satun, Songkhla, Surat Thani, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Yala),
Malaysia (Sabah, Sarawak, Borneo), Pulau Tioman.

Type locality: Sumatra

borneensis: Indonesia (Nias, Sumatra, Borneo);
Malaysia (Malaya and East Malaysia; Sabah, Sarawak, Selangor, Pahang, Jahore); S Thailand; Type locality: Sarawak. Emended to Kuching, Sarawak by de Rooij 1917).  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesHolotype: lost fide Iskandar & Colijn, 2001: 65. Not located at MNHN (I. Ineich, March 2019) 
Diagnosis 
CommentJuveniles have white bands on the black body while adults are completely black.

Type species: Sphecodes albo-fuscus DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 394 is the type species of the genus Lepturophis BOULENGER 1900.

Synonymy: Dryocalamus is currently (2017) nested within Lycodon (e.g. see phylogenetic tree in Wostl et al. 2017), hence the Philippine Lycodon must be moved to a new genus or Lepturophis synonymized with Lycodon.

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
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