COL·V343QspeciesThe Nature Library · Catalogue of Life, 2026
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East himalayan Banded Wolf Snake
Lycodon latifasciatus Nguyen, Lee, Jiang, Ding, Chit, Poyarkov & Vogel, 2025
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
- Myanmar (Sagaing), China (Xizang)
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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
- NGUYEN, T. A. VAN., LEE, J. L., JIANG, K., DING, L., CHIT, M. T., POYARKOV, N. A., & VOGEL, G. (2025). A new species of wolf snake Lycodon Fitzinger, 1826 from China and Myanmar (Squamata: Colubridae), and new data on Lycodon gongshan Vogel & Luo, 2011. Zootaxa 5621(1): 1-51.
- 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.