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Taxonomy of the genus Lycodon Biodiversity of the family Colubridae

Bibliography of the genus Lycodon

(Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae)

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Lycodon in general

Adler, K.; Zhao, E. 1995. The proper generic name for the Asian wolf snakes: Lycodon (Serpentes: Colubridae). Sichuan Journal of Zoology 14(2): 75.

Griffin, L.E. 1910. A list of snakes from the island of Polillo, P.I., with descriptions of a new genus and two new species. Philippine Journal of Science (D) 5: 211-217.

Guo, P.; Zhang, L.; Liu, Q.; Cao, L.; Pyron, R.A.; Jiang, K.; Burbrink, F.T. 2013. Lycodon and Dinodon: one genus or two? Evidence from molecular phylogenetics and morphological comparisons. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68(1): 144-149.

Hoser, R.T. 2014. From a history of genus mergers to an overdue break-up: a new and sensible taxonomy for the Asiatic Wolf Snakes Lycodon Boie, 1826 (Serpentes: Colubridae). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 23: 35-51.

Lei, J.; Sun, X.; Jiang, K.; Vogel, G.; Booth, D.T.; Ding, L. 2014. Multilocus phylogeny of Lycodon and the taxonomic revision of Oligodon multizonatum. Asian Herpetological Research 5(1): 26-37.

Leviton, A.E. 1965. Contribution to a review of Philippine snakes. 8. The snakes of the genus Lycodon H. Boie. Philippine Journal of Science 94: 117-140.

Luo, J.; Ryabov, S.A.; Luo, Y.; Gao, H.Y.; Luo, Z.R.; Hu, X.C. 2010. [Classification and distribution of the genus Dinodon]. (In Chinese). Sichuan Journal of Zoology 29(4): 579-582.

Nanayakkara, G.L.A. 1987. An experiment with wolf snakes (genus Lycodon). Loris 17(5): 215.

Ota, H. 2000. A long overlooked holotype: taxonomic notes on Lycodon tessellatus Jan 1863 (Squamata Colubridae), with a revised key to Philippine species of the genus. Tropical Zoology 13(2): 299-304.

Pauwels, O.S.G.; Sumontha, M.; David, P.; Chan-ard, T.; Vogel, G. 2005. First record of Lycodon cardamomensis from Thailand, with a key to Thai lycodon (Serpentes: Colubridae). Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society 53(1): 79-86.

Polyakov, D.A. 2012. [Keeping and breeding of snakes of the genus Dinodon]. (In Russian). Nauchnye Issledovaniya v Zoologicheskikh Parkakh 28: 44-46.

Pyron, R.A.; Kandambi, H.K.D.; Hendry, C.R.; Pushpamal, V.; Burbrink, F.T.; Somaweera, R. 2013. Genus-level phylogeny of snakes reveals the origins of species richness in Sri Lanka. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66(3): 969-978.

Smith, M.A. 1928. The status of some recently described genera and species of snakes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser. 10) 1: 494-497.

Toriba, M.; Hikida, T. 1999. Gender of the genus Dinodon (Colubridae: Serpentes). Bulletin of the Herpetological Society of Japan 1999(1): 1-2.

Toriba, M.; Hikida, T. 1999. Gender of the genus Dinodon (Colubridae: Serpentes). (In Japanese). Bulletin of the Herpetological Society of Japan 1: 1-2.

Werner, F. 1924. Neue oder wenig bekannte Schlangen aus dem Naturhistorischen Staatsmuseum in Wien. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse 133: 29-56.

Lycodon aulicus

Bhattarai, S.; Neupane, U. 2017. Geographic distribution: Lycodon aulicus (Common Wolf Snake). Herpetological Review 48(2): 392.

Bhutkar, R.; Mahabal, A. 2014. Cases of albinism in snakes from Maharashtra, India. Reptile Rap 16: 31-35.

Dastidar, D.G.; Mani, S.D. 2008. Translocation of snakes from the NTPC campus at Alappuzha, Kerala, to the Konni Reserve Forest in Kerala. Cobra (Chennai) 2(1): 13-21.

Deshmukh, R.V.; Deshmukh, S.A.; Badhekar, S.A. 2018. Unusual climbing ability by a Common Wolfsnake Lycodon aulicus (Linnaeus 1758) in India. IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 25(1): 44 45.

Ganesh, S.R.; Chandramouli, S.R. 2011. Report of some noteworthy specimens and species of herpetofauna from South-east India. Taprobanica 3(1): 5-10.

Ganesh, S.R.; Vogel, G. 2018. Taxonomic reassessment of the Common Indian Wolf Snakes Lycodon aulicus (Linnaeus, 1758) complex (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae). Bonn Zoological Bulletin 67(1): 25 36.

Karthikeyan, S. 1993. Length record of the common wolf snake Lycodon aulicus from the Shevaroys. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 90(2): 298-299.

Khaire, N. 1977. Snake collecting in Matheran. Newsletter of the Madras Snake Park Trust 2(1): 10-11.

Khan, M.S. 2014. Notes on reproduction and defense mechanisms of the Common Indo-Pakistan Wolf Snake Lycodon aulicus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Ophidia: Colubridae). Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 49(3): 33-34.

Kumar Sharma, S. 1999. Calotes versicolor feeding on Lycodon aulicus. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 96(1): 146-147.

Mirza, Z.A.; Vaze, V.V.; Sanap, R.V. 2011. Death feigning behavior in two species of the genus Lycodon of Asia (Squamata: Colubridae). Herpetology Notes 4: 295-297.

Patil, S.; Mirza, Z.A. 2007. Note on the largest length record of common wolf snake Lycodon aulicus (Linnaeus, 1758). Reptile RAP 8: 15.

Pawar, M.; Qureshi, A. 2016. Totstellverhalten von Lycodon aulicus (Linnaeus, 1758). Sauria (Berlin) 38(1): 54-55.

Rahman, S.C.; Opu, W.I.; Das, K.R. 2012. Natural history notes: Lycodon aucilus (Common Wolf Snake). Predation. Herpetological Review 43(2): 346.

Ravichandran, B.; Siliwal, M. 2010. Snakes of Rameshwaram. Reptile RAP 9: 2-3.

Rodda, G.H.; Fritts, T.H.; Campbell, E.W.; Dean-Bradley, K.; Perry, G.; Qualls, C.P. 2002. Practical concerns in the eradication of island snakes. Occasional Papers of the IUCN Species Survival Commission 27: 260-265.

Sharma, R.C. 1982. Taxonomic and ecological studies on the reptiles of Gujarat. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 80(1-2): 85-106.

Simon, E.S. 1942. Notes on the breeding habits of some snakes. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 43(3): 533-534.

Soud, R.; Mazumdar, K.J.; Gupta, A. 2010. Predation by white-throated kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis on common wolf snake Lycodon aulicus (Linnaeus). NeBIO 1(1): 53-54.

Talukdar, S.K.; Sanyal, D.P. 1978. Four new records of reptiles from Mizoram, India. Bulletin of the Zoological Survey of India 1(3): 319-320.

Tank, C.; Sharma, V. 2016. Natural history notes: Lycodon aulicus (Common Wolf Snake). Diet. Herpetological Review 47(3): 480.

Vyas, R. 2014. Report on some remarkable specimens with unusual color morph recorded from two species of snakes (Reptilia: Serpentes) from Gujarat, India. Russian Journal of Herpetology 21(1): 47-52.

Vyas, R.; Patel, B.H. 1995. Length record of the common wolf snake (Lycodon aulicus) from Bharuch, Gujarat. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 92(2): 271.

Lycodon bicolor

Chikin, Y.A.; Vashetko, E.V. 1985. [Definition of the northern borders of distributional area and new finds of Lycodon striatus]. pp. 45-46. (In Russian?). In: Persianova, L.A. (ed.). [Ecology and preservation of rare and threatened vertebrates of Uzbekistan]. Fan, Tashkent. 51 pp.

Jabbarov, A.R.; Fundukchiev, S.E. 2011. [On page of the "Red Book of Uzbekistan". Transverse-striped Wolf-tooth snake (Lycodon striatus bicolor Nikolsky) in Karatepa]. (In Russian). Uzbekskii Biologicheskii Zhurnal 3: 64.

Sadia, F.; Hafeez, M.A.; Tariq, S. 1999. Morphology of the pineal complex in three species of snakes (Ophidia, Reptilia) from Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 31(1): 39-44.

Sattarov, T.S.; Said-Aliev, S.A. 1981. [On new data on two rare species of snakes in Tadzhikistan]. pp. 121. (In Russian). In: Darevsky, I.S., Ananjeva, N.B., Barkagan, Z.S., Borkin, L.Y., Sokolova, T.M. & Shcherbak, N.N. (eds.). The problems of herpetology: abstracts. Nauka, Leningrad. 163 pp.

Starkov, V.G. 1988. [New data on the herpetofauna of western Kopetdagh]. (In Russian). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1988(6): 66-67.

Tsellarius, A.Y.; Cherlin, V.A.; Lukin, Y.A. 1983. [Reptile population of Eroilanduz drainless depression (Badkhyz, Turkmenia)]. (In Russian, English summary). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1983(6): 63-66.

Wall, F. 1906. A new Himalayan snake (Lycodon mackinnoni). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 17: 29-30.

Lycodon butleri

Chan, K.O.; Grismer, L.L.; Anuar, S.; Quah, E.; Grismer, J.L.; Wood, P.L.; Muin, M.A.; Ahmad, N. 2011. A new species of Chiromantis Peters 1854 (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Perlis State Park in extreme northern Peninsular Malaysia with additional herpetofaunal records for the park. Russian Journal of Herpetology 18(4): 253-259.

Cox, M.J. 1991. Geographic distribution: Lycodon butleri (Butler's Wolf Snake). Herpetological Review 22(1): 26.

Cox, M.J. 1991. Geographic distribution: Lycodon butleri (Butler's Wolf Snake). Herpetological Review 22(3): 103.

Lycodon capucinus

Das, I.; Ghodke, S. 2003. Natural history notes: Ophiophagus hannah (King Cobra). Juvenile diet. Herpetological Review 34(3): 253.

Fritts, T.H. 1993. The common wolf snake, Lycodon aulicus capucinus, a recent colonist of Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. Wildlife Research 20(2): 261-266.

How, R.A.; Schmitt, L.H.; Suyanto, A. 1996. Geographical variation in the morphology of four snake species from the Lesser Sunda Islands, eastern Indonesia. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 59(4): 439-456.

Jackson, K.; Fritts, T.H. 2004. Dentitional specialisations for durophagy in the common wolf snake, Lycodon aulicus capucinus. Amphibia-Reptilia 25(3): 247-254.

Kuch, U.; McGuire, J.A. 2004. Range extensions of Lycodon capucinus Boie, 1827 in eastern Indonesia. Herpetozoa 17(3-4): 191-193.

Mirza, Z.A.; Vaze, V.V.; Sanap, R.V. 2011. Death feigning behavior in two species of the genus Lycodon of Asia (Squamata: Colubridae). Herpetology Notes 4: 295-297.

O Shea, M.; Kusuma, K.I.; Kaiser, H. 2018. First record of the Island Wolfsnake, Lycodon capucinus (H. Boie in F. Boie 1827), from New Guinea, with comments on its widespread distribution and confused taxonomy, and a new record for the Common Sun Skink, Eutropis multifasciata (Kuhl 1820). IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 25(1): 70 84.

Pal, A.; Dey, S.; Roy, U.S. 2012. Seasonal diversity and abundance of herpetofauna in and around an industrial city of West Bengal, India. Journal of Applied Sciences in Environmental Sanitation 7(4): 281-286.

Smith, L.A. 1988. Lycodon aulicus capucinus a colubrid snake introduced to Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. Records of the Western Australian Museum 14(2): 251-252.

Smith, M.J.; Cogger, H.G.; Tiernan, B.; Maple, D.J.; Boland, C.; Napier, F.; Detto, T.; Smith, P. 2012. An oceanic island reptile community under threat: the decline of reptiles on Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 7(2): 206-218.

Lycodon cardamomensis

Daltry, J.C.; W ster, W. 2002. A new species of wolf snake (Serpentes: Colubridae: Lycodon) from the Cardamom Mountains, southwestern Cambodia. Herpetologica 58(4): 498-504.

Do, D.T.; Ngo, C.D.; Ziegler, T.; Nguyen, T.Q. 2017. First Record of Lycodon cardamomensis Daltry et W ster, 2002 (Squamata: Colubridae) from Vietnam. Russian Journal of Herpetology 24(2): 167-170.

Pauwels, O.S.G.; Sumontha, M.; David, P.; Chan-ard, T.; Vogel, G. 2005. First record of Lycodon cardamomensis from Thailand, with a key to Thai lycodon (Serpentes: Colubridae). Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society 53(1): 79-86.

Lycodon carinatus

Edirisinghe, G.M.; Sudasinghe, B.S.A.T.H. 2013. Eine Beobachtung von Ovivorie bei der Sri Lanka-Wolfsnatter Cercaspis carinatus (Kuhl, 1820). Sauria (Berlin) 35(1): 54-56.

Gibson, R.C. 2010. A new locality for the endemic colubrid Cercaspis carinata Kuhl, 1820; with a note on its behaviour when observed. Lyriocephalus 7(1-2): 209.

Pyron, R.A.; Kandambi, H.K.D.; Hendry, C.R.; Pushpamal, V.; Burbrink, F.T.; Somaweera, R. 2013. Genus-level phylogeny of snakes reveals the origins of species richness in Sri Lanka. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66(3): 969-978.

Silva, A. de 1980. Cercaspis carinatus. A relict snake of Sri Lanka. Loris 15(3): 164-165.

Velauthem, V.A.; Jayaneththi, H.B. 2016. Sri Lanka-Wolfszahnnatter, Lycodon carinatus (Kuhl, 1820), frisst Templetons Kukrinatter, Oligodon calamarius (Linnaeus, 1754), im Sinharaja-Regenwald, Sri Lanka. Sauria (Berlin) 38(4): 60-62.

Lycodon cavernicolus

Grismer, L.L.; Quah, E.S.H.; Anuar, M.S.S.; Muin, M.A.; Wood, P.L.; Nor, S.A.M. 2014. A diminutive new species of cave-dwelling Wolf Snake (Colubridae: Lycodon Boie, 1826) from Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa 3815(1): 51-67.

Lycodon davidi

Vogel, G.; Nguyen, T.Q.; Kingsada, P.; Ziegler, T. 2012. A new species of the genus Lycodon Boie, 1826 from Laos (Squamata: Colubridae). North-Western Journal of Zoology 8(2): 344-352.

Lycodon fasciolatus

Ganesh, S.R.; Vogel, G. 2018. Taxonomic reassessment of the Common Indian Wolf Snakes Lycodon aulicus (Linnaeus, 1758) complex (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae). Bonn Zoological Bulletin 67(1): 25 36.

Lycodon fausti

Gaulke, M. 2002. A new species of Lycodon from Panay Island, Philippines (Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae). Spixiana 25(1): 85-92.

Lycodon ferroni

Lanza, B. 1999. A new species of Lycodon from the Philippines, with a key to the genus (Reptilia Serpentes Colubridae). Tropical Zoology 12(1): 89-104.

Lycodon flavicollis

GANESH, S.R.; Rameshwaran, M.; Joseph, N.A. 2017. Nachweis einer Halsband-Wolfsnatter, Lycodon flavicollis Mukherjee & Bhupathy, 2007, aus den Coutrallam Hills, s dliche Western Ghats, Indische Halbinsel. Sauria (Berlin) 39(1): 58-60.

Mukherjee, D.; Bhupathy, S. 2007. A new species of wolf snake (Serpentes: Colubridae: Lycodon) from Anaikatti Hills, western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India. Russian Journal of Herpetology 14(1): 21-26.

Muliya, S.K.; Nath, A. 2018. Geographic distribution: Lycodon flavicollis (Yellow-collared Wolf Snake). Herpetological Review 49(1): 77.

Narayana, B.L.; Sandeep, M.; Dogra, S. 2018. A new locality record for the Yellow-collared Wolfsnake, Lycodon flavicollis Mukherjee and Bhupathy 2007, from Hyderabad, Telangana, India. IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 25(1): 55 56.

Lycodon flavomaculatus

Anne, S.; Visvanathan, A.C. 2018. Reptile Rap: Yellow-spotted Wolf Snake: New locality record of Lycodon flavomaculatus Wall, 1907 from Telangana, India. Zoos' Print Magazine 33(4): 12-14.

Anne, S.; Visvanathan, A.C. 2018. Yellow-spotted Wolf Snake: New locality record of Lycodon flavomaculatus Wall, 1907 from Telangana, India. Zoos' Print 33(4): 12-14.

Captain, A. 1999. On the identification of Lycodon flavomaculatus Wall 1907. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 96(2): 323-327.

Deshmukh, R.V.; Deshmukh, S.A.; Badhekar, S.A. 2018. New state records of the Slender Coralsnake, Calliophis melanurus (Shaw 1802), and the Yellow-spotted Wolfsnake, Lycodon flavomaculatus Wall 1907, in Chhattisghar, India. IRCF (International Reptile Conservation Foundation) Journal 25(3): 194 196.

Khaire, N. 1977. Snake collecting in Matheran. Newsletter of the Madras Snake Park Trust 2(1): 10-11.

Melvinselvan, G.; Narayanan, R.S.; Sharma, V. 2016. Geographic distribution: Lycodon flavomaculatus (Yellow-spotted Wolf Snake). Herpetological Review 47(3): 427.

Murthy, T.S.N. 1991. A rare wolf snake, Lycodon flavomaculatus, from the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, south India. The Snake 23(2): 104-106.

Narayanan, S.; Joseph, N.; Selvan, M.; Jerith, A. 2017. Notes on the southernmost distributional record for the Yellow-spotted Wolfsnake, Lycodon cf. flavomaculatus (Wall 1907), from Tamil Nadu, India. IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 24(2): 115 117.

Sharma, V.; Jain, A.; Bhandari, R. 2015. A new locality for the elusive and endemic Yellow-Spotted Wolf Snake (Lycodon flavomaculatus Wall 1907), with notes on distribution and habitat. IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 22(4): 164 167.

Trivedi, K.; Shah, V. 2017. Occurrence of the Yellow-spotted Wolf Snake (Lycodon flavomaculatus Wall 1907) in Surat, Gujarat, India. IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 24(3): 201 202.

Trivedi, K.; Shah, V. 2018. Addendum to Trivedi and Shah (2017. Occurrence of the Yellow-spotted Wolf Snake (Lycodon flavomaculatus Wall 1907) in Surat, Gujarat, India. Reptiles & Amphibians 24: 201 202). IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 25(1): 98.

Vyas, R. 1987. A list of the snakes of the Bhavnagar district. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 84(1): 277-231.

Vyas, R.; Upadhaya, K. 2008. Zum Vorkommen von Lycodon flavomaculatus Wall, 1907 im Bundesstaat Gujarat, Indien. Sauria (Berlin) 30(1): 55-58.

Walmiki, N.S.; Karangutkar, S.; Jadhav, A.; Parab, S.; Achyuthan, N.S. 2011. First record of yellow-spotted wolf snake Lycodon flavomaculatus (Wall, 1907) from Chirner Forest, Uran, Maharashtra. Reptile Rap 12: 2-3.

Lycodon hypsirhinoides

Vogel, G.; Harikrishnan, S. 2013. Revalidation of Lycodon hypsirhinoides (Theobald, 1868) from Andaman Islands (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae). Taprobanica 5(1): 19-31.

Lycodon jara

Bahuguna, A.; Bhutia, P.T. 2008. Geographic distribution: Lycodon jara (Yellow-speckled Wolf Snake). Herpetological Review 39(1): 111-112.

Bahuguna, A.; Bhutia, P.T. 2010. Extension of the range and redescription of Lycodon jara (Shaw) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India 110(4): 37-39.

Chaudhuri, A.; Sharma, V.; Purkayastha, J. 2015. Lycodon odishii, a junior synonym of Lycodon jara, with notes on morphological variation in this species (Squamata, Colubridae). Hamadryad 37(1-2): 95-103.

Dutta, A.; Chowdhury, S.; Chaudhuri, A.; Das, S. 2018. Herpetoculture: Lycodon jara (Twin-spotted Wolf Snake). Feeding. Herpetological Review 49(3): 490-491.

Husain, A.; Ray, P. 1995. Reptilia. pp. 159-167. In: Ghosh, A.K. (ed.). Fauna of western Himalaya. Part 1: Uttar Pradesh. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. 228 pp.

Hussain, A.; Roy, P. 1993. Occurrence of twin-spotted wolf snake Lycodon jara (Shaw) (Dipsadidae: Lycodontinae) in Rajaji National Park and Doon Valley, Uttar Pradesh. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 90(1): 112-113.

Khan, A.A.; Sharma, V. 2018. Geographic distribution: Lycodon jara (Twin-spotted Wolf Snake). Herpetological Review 49(3): 506.

Mallik, S.; Parida, S.P.; Mohanty, A.K.; Mallik, A.; Purohit, K.L.; Mohanty, S.; Nanda, S.; Sindura, S.; Purohit, S.; Mishra, A.T.; Sahoo, S. 2014. A new species of wolf snake (Serpentes: Colubridae: Lycodon) from Berhampur, Ganjam, Odisha, India. Russian Journal of Herpetology 21(3): 205-216.

Mathew, R. 2007. Additions to the snake fauna of Mizoram. Cobra (Chennai) 1(1): 5-9.

Talukdar, S.K.; Dasgupta, G. 1977. Natural distribution of the wolf snake Lycodon jara (Shaw) (Serpentes: Colubridae) in northern India. Newsletter of the Zoological Survey of India 3(5): 276-277.

Lycodon laoensis

Bain, R.H.; Nguyen, Q.T.; Doan, V.K. 2007. Geographic distribution: Lycodon laoensis (Indo-chinese Wolf Snake). Herpetological Review 38(1): 104.

Cheke, A.S. 1973. Snakes at Chiang Mai University. Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society 24(3-4): 469-471.

Lim, B.L. 1958. The Indo-Chinese wolf snake. Malayan Nature Journal 12: 183-184.

Sanyal, D.P.; Gayen, N.C. 2006. Reptilia. pp. 247-284. In: Alfred, J.R.B. (ed.). Fauna of Arunachal Pradesh. Part 1. State Fauna Series 13. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. 396 pp.

Lycodon liuchengchaoi

Peng, L.F.; Zhu, Y.W.; Huang, S. 2014. [Lycodon liuchengchaoi was found in Shaanxi Province, China]. (In Chinese). Chinese Journal of Zoology 49(6): 952.

Zhang, J.; Jiang, K.; Vogel, G.; Rao, D.Q. 2011. A new species of the genus Lycodon (Squamata, Colubridae) from Sichuan Province, China. Zootaxa 2982: 59-68.

Zhang, L.; Peng, L.F.; Yu, L.; Wang, Z.P.; Huang, L.Q.; Huang, S. 2015. New record of Lycodon liuchengchaoi in Anhui. Zoological Research 36(1): 178-180.

Lycodon multizonatus

Jiang, Y.; Hu, Q.; Zhao, E. 1983. [Studies on amphibians and reptiles of Mt Gongga region, Sichuan, China. 4. Species composition and faunal analysis (including records of birds collected from this region)]. (In Chinese, English summary). Acta Herpetologica Sinica 2(1): 63-69.

Lei, J.; Sun, X.; Jiang, K.; Vogel, G.; Booth, D.T.; Ding, L. 2014. Multilocus phylogeny of Lycodon and the taxonomic revision of Oligodon multizonatum. Asian Herpetological Research 5(1): 26-37.

Lycodon ophiophagus

Vogel, G.; David, P.; Pauwels, O.S.G.; Sumontha, M.; Norval, G.; Hendrix, R.; Vu, N.T.; Ziegler, T. 2009. A revision of Lycodon ruhstrati (Fischer 1886) auctorum (Squamata Colubridae), with the description of a new species from Thailand and a new subspecies from the Asian mainland. Tropical Zoology (Florence) 22(2): 131-182.

Lycodon paucifasciatus

Orlov, N.L.; Ryabov, S.A.; Nguyen, V.S.; Nguyen, Q.T. 2003. New records and data on the poorly known snakes of Vietnam. Russian Journal of Herpetology 10(3): 217-240.

Lycodon sidiki

Wostl, E.; Hamidy, A.; Kurniawan, N.; Smith, E.N. 2017. A new species of Wolf Snake of the genus Lycodon H. Boie in Fitzinger (Squamata: Colubridae) from the Aceh Province of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Zootaxa 4276(4): 539 553.

Lycodon stormi

Boettger, O. 1892. Drei neue colubriforme Schlangen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 15: 417-420.

Lycodon striatus

Chernov, S.A. 1935. New material on the distribution of the Indian snake Lycodon striatus (Shaw) in Soviet Middle Asia. C. R. Acad. Sci. Leningrad N.S. 3(4): 189-192.

Chernov, S.A. 1946. New material on the distribution of the Indian snake Lycodon striatus (Shaw) (Ophidia, Colubridae) in Soviet Middle Asia. C. R. Acad. Sci. U.R.S.S. 1035(3): 4 189-192.

Green, E.E. 1905. Lycodon striatus in Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica 2: 205.

Kumar, R.C.K.; Samson, A.; Santhoshkumar, P.; Ramakrishnan, B.; Gnaneswar, C. 2017. Notes on breeding of the barred wolf snake (Lycodon striatus) in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India. Herpetological Bulletin 141: 42-43.

Kumar-Sharma, S. 1995. Clutch size in Shaw's wolf snake Lycodon striatus. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 92(2): 271.

Seshadri, K.S. 2017. Natural history notes: Lycodon striatus (Barred Wolf Snake). Diet. Herpetological Review 48(3): 676-677.

Somaweera, R. 2005. A Bark Gecko (Hemidactylus leschenaultii) preying on a Wolf Snake (Lycodon striatus sinhaleyus). Gekko 4(2): 8-10.

Vyas, R. 1985. Young common sandboa (Eryx conicus Schneider) swallowing barred wolfsnake (Lycodon striatus Shaw) double its length. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 82(2): 424.

Vyas, R. 2000. Supplementary note on herpetofauna of Gir Forets [Forests]. Zoos' Print Journal 15(5): 263-264.

Wall, F. 1907. Occurrence of the Indian snake Lycodon striatus in Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica 4(16): 174.

Lycodon synaptor

Vogel, G.; David, P. 2010. A new species of the genus Lycodon (Boie, 1826) from Yunnan Province, China (Serpentes: Colubridae). Bonn Zoological Bulletin 57(2): 289 296.

Lycodon tiwarii

Biswas, S.; Sanyal, D.P. 1965. A new species of wolf-snake of the genus Lycodon Boie (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Proceedings zool. Soc, Calcutta 18: 137-141.

Harikrishnan, S.; Choudhary, B.C.; Vasudevan, K. 2010. Recent records of snakes (Squamata: Serpentes) from Nicobar Islands, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 2(11): 1297-1300.

Lycodon travancoricus

Adiyodi, K.G. 1963. First record of Beddome's Wolf-Snake Lycodon travancoricus (Beddome) from the Laccadive Archipelago. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 60: 261-262.

Ganesh, S.R.; Arumugam, M. 2016. Species richness of montane herpetofauna of southern Eastern Ghats, India: a historical resume and a descriptive checklist. Russian Journal of Herpetology 23(1): 7-24.

Khaire, N. 1977. Snake collecting in Matheran. Newsletter of the Madras Snake Park Trust 2(1): 10-11.

Sharma, V.; Jani, M. 2015. Geographic distribution: Lycodon travancoricus (Travancore Wolf Snake). Herpetological Review 46(4): 574.

Underwood, G. 1947. Reptiles of Cocanada. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 46(4): 613-028.

Lycodon zawi

Dutta, D.; Sengupta, S.; Das, A.K.; Das, A. 2013. New distribution of records of Lycodon zawi (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Northeast India. Herpetology Notes 6: 263-265.

Ghosh, A.; Mukherjee, N.; Rahut, B. 2017. Geographic distribution: Lycodon zawi (Zaw's Wolf Snake). Herpetological Review 48(1): 129.

Reza, A.H.M.A. 2010. Colubrid snake Lycodon zawi (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Lawachara National Park in Bangladesh. Russian Journal of Herpetology 17(1): 75-77.

Slowinski, J.B.; Pawar, S.S.; Win, H.; Thin, T.; Gyi, S.W.; Oo, S.L.; Tun, H. 2001. A new Lycodon (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Northeast India and Myanmar (Burma). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 52(20): 397-405.