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Lycodon irwini
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Irwin’s Wolf Snake

Lycodon irwini Naveen, Mirza, Choure & Chandramouli, 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
India (Great Nicobar Island)
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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. V., Harikrishnan, S., Ray, S., Mohapatra, P. P., Poyarkov, N. A., & David, P. (2026). First description of the male of Lycodon irwini Naveen, Zeeshan, Mirza, Choure & Chandramouli, 2025 (Squamata: Colubridae), with an updated account of the herpetofauna of the Great Nicobar Islands, India. Zootaxa, 5750 (4), 482–504.
  • Naveen, R. S., Mirza, Z. A., Choure, G., & Chandramouli, S. R. (2025). A ’Crikey’new snake: An insular Lycodon Fitzinger, 1826 (Squamata, Colubridae) from the Nicobar Archipelago, India. Evolutionary Systematics, 9, 221-228.

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