Lycodon sidiki WOSTL, HAMIDY, KURNIAWAN & SMITH, 2017

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Lycodon sidiki WOSTL, HAMIDY, KURNIAWAN & SMITH 2017 Lycodon sidiki — VAN NGUYEN et al. 2024
Distribution	Indonesia (Sumatra: Aceh) Type locality: between Takengon and Isaq, Aceh Province, Sumatra 04.50611 °N, 96.86061 °E, 1614 m asl
Reproduction	oviparous.
Types	Holotype: MZB Ophi.5980. An adult male; collected at 22:58 on 05 August 2015 by Elijah Wostl, Ilham Fonna and Muhammad Iksan as it was crossing a small rocky creek through a wooded region.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: This species of Lycodon is recognized by the presence of keeled scales, an elongate loreal scale that reaches the orbit, the absence of a preocular scale, an undivided anal scale, and a banded venter. Additional details (1542 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Apparently known only from one adult male, the holotype (Wostl et al. 2017 are not explicit about this but list only one specimen).
References	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 Nguyen, Tan Van, Patrick David & Gernot Vogel. 2024. Expanded description & range extension of Lycodon sidiki Wostl, Hamidy, Kurniawan & Smith, 2017 (Squamata: Colubridae). Zootaxa 5492(4): 563–581. - get paper here WOSTL, ELIJAH; AMIR HAMIDY, NIA KURNIAWAN, ERIC N. SMITH 2017. A new species of Wolf Snake of the genus Lycodon H. Boie in Fitzinger (Squamata: Colubridae) from the Aceh Province of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Zootaxa 4276 (4): 539–553 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/313511477540124/ Google images

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