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Lycodon yunnanensis
Figure 1 Lycodon yunnanensis ( HUS.2025.15 ) in life, adult male. Photos: A.V. Pham, Pham, Ngo, 2026 (CC BY 4.0) · Plazi / Biodiversity Literature Repository. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.

Yunnan Wolf Snake

Lycodon yunnanensis (Werner, 1922)

Also calledYunnan Wolfszahnnatter (deu)

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
China (Yunnan)
Also published as
Dinodon yunnanensis Werner, 1922
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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

  • VOGEL, G., LIU, S., DAVID, P., & VAN NGUYEN, T. A. N. (2024). Solving of the long-term question: resurrection of Dinodon yunnanensis Werner, 1922 (Squamata: Colubridae: Lycodon). Zootaxa 5551(2), 201-241.
  • Werner, & FRANZ. (1922). Neue Reptilien aus Süd-China, gesammelt von Dr. H. Handel-Mazzetti. Anz. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, Ser. Mathemat.-Naturwissensch., Vienna, 59 (24-25): 220-222.
  • VOGEL, G., BRAGIN, A. M., POYARKOV, N. A., & VAN NGUYEN, T. A. N. (2025). A new limestone-associated species of wolf snake in the Lycodon fasciatus complex (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae) from central Vietnam. Zootaxa 5679(1), 1-44.

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