Mackinnon's Wolf Snake
Lycodon bicolor (Nikolsky, 1903)
Lycodon bicolor, commonly known as the two-coloured wolf snake, bicolored wolf snake, golden wolf snake, and Mackinnon's wolf snake, is a species of colubrid snake native to the Western Himalayas.
- Registrada en
- Pakistan (KHAN 2002), India (Uttar Pradesh), Iran, Afghanistan
- También publicada como
- Contia bicolor Nikolsky, 1903; Lycodon mackinnoni Wall, 1906; Lycodon striatus nordicus Deraniyagala, 1955
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Descripción
Adults may attain a total length of 36.5 cm (14.4 in), which includes a tail 6.5 cm (2.6 in) long. Dorsally, it is brown, with a network of white lines. Ventrally, it is uniformly white, or white with brown-edged ventrals. The dorsal scales are smooth, and are arranged in 17 rows at midbody. The anal plate is divided.
Distribución y hábitat
Lycodon bicolor is restricted to the western Himalayas, ranging from Uttarakhand in India east through IOK to POK in Pakistan. It was originally described from Mussoorie, but was not found again at its type locality for over 112 years until it was rediscovered in 2019 during survey work in Binog Wildlife Sanctuary; these findings were reported in 2021. As Mussoorie is a major tourist destination, L. bicolor may be threatened by vehicular traffic, pollution, and other tourism-related activities near the sanctuary; due to this, a detailed status survey and further research into the species are required.
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Referencias
- 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.
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