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Lycodon anakradaya NGUYEN, DUONG, WOOD & GRISMER, 2022

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymLycodon anakradaya NGUYEN, DUONG, WOOD & GRISMER 2022 
DistributionVietnam (Khanh Vinh district, Khanh Hoa Province)

Type locality: Song Giang River Valley (12.37079° N, 108.83643° E; at elevation 493 m a.s.l.), Khanh Trung Commune, Khanh Vinh District, Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: SIEZC 20247, adult male collected by Anh The Nguyen, 21 December 2020; Paratype: Juvenile (SIEZC 20248) collected on 21 August 2020 by Anh The Nguyen from Song Giang River Valley (12.37079°N, 108.83643°E; at elevation 580 m a.s.l.), Khanh Trung Commune, Khanh Vinh District, Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Lycodon anakradaya sp. nov. is separated from all other species in the L. rufozonatus complex by having the combination of a maximum SVL length of 790 mm; TaL 190 mm; 17 or 18–17–15 dorsal scale rows; 12 maxillary teeth; eight supralabials with the 3rd–5th contacting the eye; nine or 10 infralabials; one preocular; two postoculars; an elongate loreal not contacting the eye; two anterior temporals; three posterior temporals; 223–232 ventral scales; 87 paired subcaudal scales; a divided precloacal plate; five keeled vertebral scale rows from midbody to vent. (NGUYEN et al. 2022)


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CommentDiet: Fish (and probably other prey). (NGUYEN et al. 2022)

Behavior: very good skill swimming and climbing too, exspecial in mossies granite rocks, active after 18:00 pm. (NGUYEN et al. 2022) 
EtymologyAnak Radaya is given in a reference to the Ede people (“Anak Radaya” in Ede
language), an Austronesian ethnic group living in the upland forested areas of southern Vietnam including those that surround the Song Giang River valley, where the new species found. 
References
  • Kwet, A. 2023. Liste der im Jahr 2022 neu beschriebenen Reptilien. Elaphe 2023 (3): 48-73
  • Nguyen AT, Duong TV, Wood PL Jr, Grismer LL 2022. Two new syntopic species of wolf snakes (genus Lycodon H. Boie in Fitzinger, 1826) from an imperiled ecosystem in the Song Giang River Valley of southern Vietnam (Squamata: Colubridae). Vertebrate Zoology 72 371–384 - get paper here
 
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