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Lycodon gammiei (BLANFORD, 1878)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Gammie's Wolf Snake, Sikkim False Wolf Snake 
SynonymOphites gammiei BLANFORD 1878: 130
Lycodon gammiei — BOULENGER 1890
Lycodon gammiei — BOULENGER 1893: 358
Dinodon gammiei — WALL 1923
Dinodon gammiei — SMITH 1943: 271
Dinodon gammiei — DAS 1996: 56
Lycodon gammiei — SILER et al. 2013 (by implication)
Dinodon gammiei — WALLACH et al. 2014: 236 
DistributionIndia (Darjeeling, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim), Bhutan (Wangyal 2014), China (Xizang)

Type locality: “Cinchona plantations, [South-Eastern] British Sikkim” [= Darjeeling]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZSI 8447 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2632 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentCinchona plants are the trees from which quinine is isolated, the drug against malaria.

Synonymy: WALL (1911) thought that Lycodon gammiei is an aberrant Lycodon fasciatus and thus the latter being a junior synonym of the L. gammiei. 
Etymologynamed after the collector of the type specimens, J.A. Gammie. 
References
  • Agarwal I., Mistry V. K., Athreya R. 2010. A preliminary checklist of the reptiles of Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary, West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Russian Journal of Herpetology 17 (2): 81 – 93
  • Athreya, R. 2006. Eaglenest Biodiversity Project (2003 – 2006): Conservation resources for Eaglenest wildlife sanctuary. Kaati Trust, Pune, 196 pp. - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Blanford, W.T. 1878. Notes on some Reptilia from the Himalayas and Burma. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (2) xlvii: 125-131 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here
  • Boulenger, George A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp. - get paper here
  • Chettri, Basundhara & S. Bhupathy 2009. Occurrence of Dinodon gammiei (Blanford, 1878) in Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 1 (1): 60-61 - get paper here
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mistry, V. 2007. Rediscovery of the Sikkim False Wolf Snake. Hornbill (Jul-Sep): 18-19
  • Mistry, V.; Vogel, G. & Tillack, F. 2007. Rediscovery of Dinodon gammiei (BLANFORD 1878) (Serpentes, Colubridae), with description of its validity. Hamadryad 31 (2): 265-273 - get paper here
  • Sharma, R. C. 2004. Handbook Indian Snakes. AKHIL BOOKS, New Delhi, 292 pp.
  • Shu F, Lyu B, Guo K, Zhang T, Mi X, Li L, Wu Y, Guo P 2024. Rediscovery of Lycodon gammiei (Blanford, 1878) (Serpentes, Colubridae) in Xizang, China, with comments on its systematic position. ZooKeys 1200: 65-74 - 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.
  • Wall,F. 1911. Is Lycodon gammiei (Blanford) an aberrant specimen of Lycodon fasciatus? J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 21: 279-281 - get paper here
  • Wall,F. 1911. A popular treatise on the common Indian snakes (part 15). J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 20 (4): 933-953 - get paper here
  • 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.
  • Wangyal, Jigme Tshelthrim 2019. The status of herpetofauna of Bhutan. District Forest Office, District Administration, Trashigang, Bhutan, 20-39 - get paper here
 
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