Lycodon capucinus (BOIE, 1827)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Serpentes (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Common Wolf Snake G: Kapuzen-Wolfszahnnatter
Synonym	Coluber hebe DAUDIN 1803: 385 Lycodon capucinus H. BOIE in F. BOIE 1827: 551 Lycodon hebe - SCHLEGEL 1837 Lycodon aulicus (nec Coluber aulicus LINNAEUS 1758) - CANTOR 1847 Lycodon aulicum (partim) - DUMÉRIL et al. 1854: 369 Lycodon aulicus var. D - GÜNTHER 1858 Ophites septentrionalis (nec Ophites septentrionalis GÜNTHER 1875, now Dinodon septentrionalis) - MÜLLER 1887 Lycodon aulicus capucinus - BARBOUR 1912 Lycodon aulicus var. capucinus - HAAS 1950 Lycodon capucinus - TAYLOR & EIBEL 1958 Ophites aulicus - ZHAO & ADLER 1993 Lycodon aulicus capucinus — BROWN et al. 1996 Lycodon aulicus capucinus — SUYANTO et al. 1996 Lycodon capucinus — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 362 Lycodon capucinus (Lycodon aulicus) — COX et al. 1998: 62 Lycodon aulicus — LANZA 1999 Lycodon capucinus — COGGER 2000: 731 Lycodon aulicus capucinus — FERNER et al. 2001 Lycodon capucinus — DE LANG & VOGEL 2005
Distribution	Australia (Christmas Islands), Myanmar (= Burma), Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Laos, SE China (from Fujian and Guangdong westward to Yunnan), Hong Kong, India (Andaman Islands), Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo, Sumbawa, Sumba, Komodo, Flores, Lomblen, Alor, Sawu, Roti, Timor, Wetar, Babar Islands, Kalao, Salajar, Buton, Sulawesi), West Malaysia, Johor: Pulau Besar, Maldives, Mascarenes (Mauritius, Reunion; fide Glaw, pers. comm.), Philippine Islands (Bantayan, Cebu, Cuyo, Leyte, Luzon Masbate, Mindanao, Mindoro, Negros, Palawan, Panay, Samar) Type locality: Java Map legend: - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map. NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it.
Types	Holotype: unknown (fide SANG et al. 2009).
Comment	The closely related species, Lycodon aulicus (Linnaeus, 1758), of which L. capucinus is often considered a subspecies or a synonym, occurs in India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. We follow David & Vogel (1996) in regarding these two forms as valid species which are sympatric throughout much of the shared part of their ranges. Not listed by GRANDISON 1977. Has been reported from the Nicobar Islands but is not listed by DAS 1999 for the Nicobar Islands.
References	Boie, F. 1827. Bemerkungen über Merrem's Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien, 1. Lieferung: Ophidier. Isis van Oken 20: 508-566. - get paper here Brown, Rafe M.; Ferner, John W.; Sison, Rogelio V.; Gonzales, Pedro C.; Kennedy, Robert S. 1996. Amphibians and reptiles of the Zambales Mountains of Luzon Island, Republic of the Philippines. Herpetological Natural History 4 (1): 1-22 Chan-ard,T.; Grossmann,W.; Gumprecht,A. & Schulz,K. D. 1999. Amphibians and reptiles of peninsular Malaysia and Thailand - an illustrated checklist [bilingual English and German]. Bushmaster Publications, Würselen, Gemany, 240 pp. [book review in Russ. J Herp. 7: 87] - get paper here Cogger,H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp. Cox, Merel J.; Van Dijk, Peter Paul; Jarujin Nabhitabhata & Thirakhupt,Kumthorn 1998. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. 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