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Lycodon tiwarii BISWAS & SANYAL, 1965

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Andaman Wolf Snake 
SynonymLycodon tiwarii BISWAS & SANYAL 1965
Lycodon tiwarii — DAS 1996: 57
Lycodon tiwarii — VIJAYAKUMAR & DAVID 2006
Lycodon tiwarii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 397 
DistributionIndia (Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands)

Type locality: North Andaman Island  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZSI 20849, ZSI 20851 (paratype) 
Diagnosis 
CommentDistribution: Not listed in the key of LANZA 1999 (although the paper is cited!). Has been reported from the Nicobar Islands but is not listed by DAS 1999 for the Nicobar Islands. Though the species was originally described from a specimen that is reportedly from North Andaman, it has never been recorded in Andaman since. However, it is known to occur widely in the Nicobar Islands. The Zoological Survey of India collection has many specimens with erroneous localities (Vijayakumar and David, 2006; Harikrishnan S., pers. comm. 6 Feb 2010). 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Krishna Kant Tiwari, a zoologist and carcinologist. He was a member of the Zoological Survey of India (1951), of which organization he become Joint Director (1980-1981). 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Biswas, S. & SANYAL,D.P. 1965. A new species of wolf-snake of the genus Lycodon Boie (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of Calcutta 18 (2): 137-141
  • Das, I. 1999. Biogeography of the amphibians and reptiles of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. In: Ota,H. (ed) Tropical Island herpetofauna..., Elsevier, pp. 43-77
  • Das, INDRANEIL, BASUDEB DATTAGUPTA and NEMAI CHARAN GAYEN. 1998. History and catalogue of reptile types in the collection of the Zoological Survey of India. J. south Asian nat. Hist. 3 (2): 121-172
  • Harikrishnan S., Vasudevan K., Choudhury B. C. 2010. A review of herpetofaunal descriptions and studies from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, with an updated checklist. Recent Trends in Biodiversity of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 387-398 - get paper here
  • Harikrishnan, S.; B.C. Choudhary & Karthikeyan Vasudevan 2010. Recent records of snakes (Squamata: Serpentes) from Nicobar Islands, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 2 (11): 1297-1300 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Lanza,B. 1999. A new species of Lycodon from the Philippines, with a key to the genus (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae). Tropical Zoology 12: 89-104 - get paper here
  • Rangasamy, V.; C. Sivaperuman, G. Gokulakrishnan, and P. Parthipan 2018. Herpetofauna of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. in: C. Sivaperuman, K. Venkataraman (eds.), Indian Hotspots, Springer, pp: 37-56 - get paper here
  • Sharma, R. C. 2004. Handbook Indian Snakes. AKHIL BOOKS, New Delhi, 292 pp.
  • Vijayakumar, S. P. and Patrick David 2006. Taxonomy, Natural History, and Distribution of the Snakes of the Nicobar Islands (INDIA), based on new materials and with an Emphasis on endemic species. Russ. J. Herpetol. 13 (1): 11 – 40
  • Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
 
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