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Lycodon flavomaculatus WALL, 1907

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Yellow-spotted Wolf Snake 
SynonymLycodon flavomaculatus WALL 1907: 612
Ophites flavomaculatus — WALL 1923: 613
Lycodon flavomaculatus — SMITH 1943: 262
Lycodon flavomaculatus — LANZA 1999: 95
Lycodon flavomaculatus — WALMIKI et al. 2011
Lycodon flavomaculatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 394 
DistributionIndia (NW Ghats, Gujarat, Maharashtra (Talegaon, Uran), Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana)

Type locality: “Sangli, Kirkee, Poona, Nasik, and Dharwar”, India.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: BNHS = BNHM (Collection of the Bombay Natural History Society), BMNH 1906.7.27.2, 1946.1.13.83, 1946.1.13. 
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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after the yellow vertebral spots, from Latin flavus, flava, flavum = yellow, blond, and Latin macula = spot, blotch. 
References
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  • Captain, A. 1999. On the identification of Lycodon flavomaculatus Wall 1907. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 96:323–327 - get paper here
  • CHIKANE, S. & H. S. Bhosale 2012. Die Reptilien von Kaas, nördliche Western Ghats, Maharashtra, Indien, mit Bemerkungen zu Vorzugsbiotopen, Häufigkeiten und Gefährdung. Sauria 34 (3): 3-15 - get paper here
  • Deshmukh, R.V., S.A, Deshmukh, and S.A. Badekar. 2015. Rescued records of snakes from Nagpur District, Maharashtra with data on unrecorded species. Reptile Rap 17: 34–43
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  • Deshmukh, Rahul V.; Sagar A. Deshmukh, Swapnil A. Badhekar, and Roshan Y. Naitame 2020. Snakes of Bhandara District, Maharashtra, Central India with notes on natural history. IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 27 (1): 10–17 - get paper here
  • Ganesh, Sumaithangi Rajagopalan & Gernot Vogel 2018. Taxonomic reassessment of the Common Indian Wolf Snakes Lycodon aulicus (Linnaeus, 1758) complex (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae). Bonn zoological Bulletin 67 (1): 25–36 - get paper here
  • Jadhav, Pavan Laxmanrao; Shivaji P Chavan and Harshad Sudarshan Trimukhe 2018. Snake species diversity and their distribution in and around Nanded city, Maharashtra, India. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 6(4): 1855-1860 [note: this appears to be a predatory journal with little if any peer review]
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  • Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-Region. Reptilia and Amphibia. 3 (Serpentes). Taylor and Francis, London. 583 pp.
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  • Visvanathan, A., Anne, S., Kolli, A. K., & Vangari, S. M. 2022. Snakes of Telangana: An annotated checklist with new locality records and notes on natural history. Reptiles & Amphibians, 29(1), 279-285 - get paper here
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  • Vyas,R.V. 2008. On the occurrence of Lycodon flavomaculatus WALL, 1907 in Gujarat State, India. Sauria 30 (1): 55-58 - get paper here
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