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Lycodon flavozonatus (POPE, 1928)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Yellow-Banded Big Tooth Snake, Yellow-Spotted Wolf Snake, Big-tooth Snake
Chinese: 黄链蛇 
SynonymDinodon flavozonatum POPE 1928
Dinodon flavozonatum — POPE 1935: 198
Dinodon rufozonatum meridionale BOURRET 1935 (fide SMITH 1943)
Dinodon flavozonatus — SMITH 1943: 271
Dinodon flavozonatum — MARX 1958
Dinodon flavozonatum — ORLOV & RYABOV 2004
Lycodon flavozonatus — SILER et al. 2013 (by implication)
Dinodon flavozonatum — WALLACH et al. 2014: 236
Lycodon flavozonatus — WANG et al. 2022 
DistributionN Myanmar (= Burma), N Vietnam,
S China (Hainan, Fujian, Guangdong)

Type locality: China, Fukien, Ch’unganhsien.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: AMNH 34371 
Diagnosis 
CommentDistribution: possibly in Yunnan (China) but records from there are questionable (Wang et al. 2022). 
References
  • Dowling, H.G., & Jenner, J.V. 1988. Snakes of Burma: checklist of reported species and bibliography. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (76): 19 pp. - get paper here
  • Glass, Bryan P. 1946. A collection of reptiles from Hunan and Anhwei provinces, China. Copeia 1946 (4): 249-252 - get paper here
  • Guo, Peng; Liang Zhang, Qin Liu, Cao Li, R. Alexander Pyron, Ke Jiang, Frank T. Burbrink 2013. Lycodon and Dinodon: One genus or two? Evidence from molecular phylogenetics and morphological comparisons. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68 (1): 144–149 - 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
  • LUU, VINH QUANG; THOMAS ZIEGLER, NGHIA VAN HA, MINH DUC LE, TUOI THI HOANG 2019. A new species of Lycodon Boie, 1826 (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam. Zootaxa 4586 (2): 261-277 - get paper here
  • Messenger, Kevin R. and Dahn, Hollis A. 2016. Lycodon flavozonatus (Yellow-Banded Big Tooth Snake) Diet. Herpetological Review 47 (4): 685 - get paper here
  • Orlov, N. & S. A. Ryabov 2004. Revalidization and change of taxonomic status of Dinodon rufozonatum meridionale Bourret, 1935 (Serpentes: Colubridae: Colubrinae). Russ. J. Herpetol. 11(3): 181-197 - get paper here
  • Pope, CLIFFORD H. 1935. The Reptiles of China. Turtes, Crocodilians, Snakes, Lizards. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York, Nat. Hist. Central Asia, 10: lii, 1-604 - get paper here
  • Pope,C.H. 1928. Four new snakes and a new lizard from South China. American Museum Novitates 325: 1-4 - get paper here
  • Siler, C. D., Oliveros, C. H., Santanen, A., Brown, R. M. 2013. Multilocus phylogeny reveals unexpected diversification patterns in Asian wolf snakes (genus Lycodon). Zoologica Scripta 42: 262–277 - get paper here
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Wang K, Lyu ZT, Wang J, Qi S, Che J 2022. Updated Checklist and Zoogeographic Division of the Reptilian Fauna of Yunnan Province, China. Biodiversity Science 30 (4): 21326, 1–31 - get paper here
  • Wang, C. G. M. Z. X., Jia, S. Y. K. T. L., & Hu, C. Z. J. 2022. An updated species checklist of amphibians and reptiles in Fujian Province, China. Biodiversity Science, 22090 - get paper here
  • Wang, Kai; Jinlong Ren, Hongman Chen, Zhitong Lyu, Xianguang Guo Ke Jiang, Jinmin Chen, Jiatang Li, Peng Guo, Yingyong Wang, Jing Che 2020. The updated checklists of amphibians and reptiles of China. Biodiversity Science 28 (2): 189-218 - get paper here
  • Zhao, E.M. 2006. The snakes of China [in Chinese]. Hefei, China, Anhui Sience & Technology Publ. House, Vol. I, 372 pp., Vol. II (color plates), 280 pp.
  • Zhao,E. & Adler,K. 1993. Herpetology of China. SSAR, Oxford/Ohio, 1-522
 
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