Lycodon neomaculatus (NGUYEN, LEE, PAUWELS, KENNEDY-GOLD, POYARKOV, DAVID & VOGEL, 2024)
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Lycodon neomaculatus
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| Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Indochinese Banded Wolf Snake |
| Synonym | Lycodon neomaculatus NGUYEN, LEE, PAUWELS, KENNEDY-GOLD, POYARKOV, DAVID & VOGEL 2024 Anoplophallus maculatus COPE 1895: 216 Lycodon subcinctus — STEJNEGER 1926: 90 Anoplophallus subcinctus — WALLACH et al. 2014 Lycodon maculatus — LIU et al. 2023 |
| Distribution | China (Guangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Yunnan, Hainan) Type locality: Hong Kong Special Administrative Re- gion, China. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: USNM 7339, adult male. (Stejneger 1926: 90 erroneously mentions USNM 7359 from Hong Kong) Other specimens. Liu et al. 2023 examined eight specimens in Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (KIZ) and two specimens in Museum of Herpetology, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CIB). KIZ2009061301, adult male, from Tian’e County, Hechi City, Guangxi Autonomous Region, China (Exact locality unknown); KIZ20190902, adult female, from Leyi Village, Chuanshan Town, Huanjiang County, Hechi City, Guangxi Autonomous Region, China (25°5'56"N, 108°0'9"E, at an elevation of 570 m); KIZ2023029, adult female, from Huangpu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China (23°5'45"N, 113°16'52"E, at an elevation of 200 m); KIZ2023030, adult female, from Hanjiang District, Putian City, Fujian Province, China (Exact locality unknown); KIZ2023031, adult male, from Menglun Town, Mengla County, Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China (21°56'9"N, 101°15'10"E, at an elevation of 550 m); KIZ2023032, adult male, from Luohu District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China (22°34'7"N, 114°14'9"E, at an elevation of 240 m); KIZ2023034, adult male, from Jinghong City, Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China (Exact locality unknown); KIZ2023044, juvenile, from Xiegang Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China (22°54'20"N, 114°14'19"E, at an elevation of 260 m); and CIB 78124 and CIB 9820, two adult females, both from Sanya City, Hainan Province, China (Exact locality unknown) (Fig. 4). |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Body size relatively small, slender; 17-17-15 dorsal scale rows; eight supralabials, 3rd–5th or 3rd–6th contacting eye; 8–9 infralabials; no preocular; prefrontal contacting eye; two postoculars; one loreal contacting eye; one anterior temporal and two posterior temporals in most individuals; ventral scales less than 205; subcaudal scales more than 70, paired; cloacal plate divided; dorsal scale feebly keeled; anterior part of head dark grey or black; posterior lateral parts of head white in juveniles and dark gray or grayish black in adults; 20–27 distinct white bands on dorsal body and tail in juveniles; 5–8 grayish white bands gradually blur backward on anterior part of body in adults; no bands on posterior part of body and tail in adults. (Liu et al. 2023) |
| Comment | Synonymy: Boulenger 1894 mentions Megalops maculatus HALLOWELL 1861 as a senior synonym of Anoplophallus maculatus, but Megalops maculatus is now Leptodeira maculata. Anoplophallus maculatus was first used in a figure legend of a hemipenis, after Cope 1893 described the genus without using a species name. The name Anoplophallus maculatus has been used for populations of Lycodon subcinctus auctorum from Southern China since the 1920s. However, Cope, 1895 has not formally described this taxon. Liu et al. 2023 revalidated maculatus from synonymy, without having a valid name, hence Nguyen et al. described it as new, or rather gave it a new (replacement) name. Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018, by implication). |
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