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GBIF·5223502speciesAnimalia63 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusLycodon
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IUCN EN · Endangered

Ceylon Wolf Snake

Lycodon carinatus (Kuhl, 1820)

Also calledЦейлонская волчья змея (rus) · දාර රදනකයා (sin) · 具棱狼齒蛇 (zho)

First described in: Kuhl, H. Beiträge zur Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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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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In the stacks

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Every page naming Lycodon carinatus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5223502.