Lycodon sealei LEVITON, 1955

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Seale’s Banded Asian Wolf Snake
Synonym	Ophites subcinctus — TAYLOR 1922: 124 (fide LEVITON et al. 2018: 440) Lycodon subcinctus sealei LEVITON 1955 Lycodon subcinctus sealei — OTA & ROSS 1994 Lycodon subcinctus sealei — GAULKE 2002 Lycodon sealei — LEVITON et al. 2018 Lycodon sealei — WEINELL et al. 2019
Distribution	Indonesia (Kalimantan, Borneo); Brunei Darussalam; Malaysia (East Malaysia); Philippines (Palawan) Type locality: Puerto Princesa, Palawan Id., Philippines
Reproduction	oviparous.
Types	Holotype: CAS 15819
Diagnosis
Comment	Synonymy: Wallach et al. 2014: 681 listed this species as synonym of Lycodon subcinctus.
Etymology	Named for Alvin Seale (1871 – 1958), Stanford zoologist, ichthyologist, and explorer, who collected the type and several of the paratypes.
References	Gaulke, M. 2002. A new species of Lycodon from Panay Island, Philippines (Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae). Spixiana 25 (1): 85-92 - get paper here Leviton, A. E., 1955. Systematic notes on the Asian snake Lycodon subcinctus. Philippine J. Sci. 84: 195-203. Leviton, Alan E.; Cameron D. Siler, Jeffrey L. Weinell, and Rafe M. Brown 2018. Synopsis of the Snakes of the Philippines. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 64 (14): 399-568 - get paper here Ota H. & Ross C. A. 1994. Four new species of Lycodon (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the northern Philippines. Copeia 1994 (1): 159-174. - get paper here Supsup CE, Asis AA, Carestia Jr UV, Diesmos AC, Mallari NAD, Brown RM 2020. Variation in species richness, composition and herpetological community structure across a tropical habitat gradient of Palawan Island, Philippines. Herpetozoa 33: 95-111 - get paper here Taylor, E.H. 1922. The snakes of the Philippine Islands. Manila (Bureau of Printing or Science), Monograph 16: 312 pp. - get paper here Weinell, Jeffrey L.; Errol Hooper, Alan E. Leviton, Rafe M. Brown 2019. Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (4) 66 (1): 1-49 - get paper here
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