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Mackinnon's Wolf Snake

Lycodon bicolor (Nikolsky, 1903)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from
Pakistan (KHAN 2002), India (Uttar Pradesh), Iran, Afghanistan
Also published as
Contia bicolor Nikolsky, 1903; Lycodon mackinnoni Wall, 1906; Lycodon striatus nordicus Deraniyagala, 1955
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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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References

  • Sharma, R. C. (2004). Handbook Indian Snakes. AKHIL BOOKS, New Delhi, 292 Pp.
  • Jablonski, D., BASIT, A., RANDALL, P., & MASROOR, R. (2025). Untangling the Wallacean Shortfall: The herpetofauna of central-eastern Afghanistan including two snake species new for the reptiles list of the country. Zootaxa 5588(2): 227-249.
  • Wall, F. (1923). A Hand-list of the Snakes of the Indian Empire. Part 2. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 29: 598-632.
  • Amarasinghe, A. A. T., Masroor, R., Lalremsanga, H. T., Weerakkody, S., Ananjeva, N. B., Campbell, P. D., Kennedy-Gold, S. R., Bandara, S. K., Bragin, A. M., Gayan, A. K. A., Sharma, V. R., Sayyed, A., Biakzuala, L., Kanishka, A. S., Ganesh, S. R., Ineich, I., de Silva, A., Wickramasinghe, L. J. M., Seneviratne, S. S. … Jablonski, D. (2023). Integrative approach resolves the systematics of barred wolf snakes in the Lycodon striatus complex (Reptilia, Colubridae). Zoologica Scripta, 52, 370– 393.
  • JABLONSKI, DANIEL; RAFAQAT MASROOR, MUAZZAM ALI KHAN & MUHAMMAD ALTAF. (2019). Addition to the snake fauna of Pakistan: Mackinnon’s Wolf Snake, Lycodon mackinnoni Wall, 1906. Herpetological Bulletin 147: 21-23.
  • 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.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.