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    Species Accepted

    Lycodon carinatus (Kuhl, 1820)

    Ceylon Wolf Snake
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Lycodon
    IUCNEndangered

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Ceylon Wolf Snake English
      Sri Lankan Wolf Snake English
      Цейлонская волчья змея Russian
      දාර රදනකයා Sinhalese
      具棱狼齒蛇 Chinese

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      18 results
      EDIRISINGHE, G.M. & B.S.A.T. Hiranya SUDASINGHE. (2013). Eine Beobachtung von Ovivorie bei der Sri Lanka-Wolfsnatter Cercaspis carinatus (KUHL, 1820). Sauria 35 (1): 54-56.
      Smith, M. A. (1943). The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-Region. Reptilia and Amphibia. 3 (Serpentes). Taylor and Francis, London. 583 Pp.
      Taylor, Edward H. (1950). The snakes of Ceylon. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 33 (14): 519-603.
      Janssen HY, Pham CT, Ngo HT, Le MD, Nguyen TQ, & Ziegler T. (2019). A new species of Lycodon Boie, 1826 (Serpentes, Colubridae) from northern Vietnam. ZooKeys 875: 1-29.
      Pyron, R. Alexander; H.K. Dushantha Kandambi, Catriona R. Hendry, Vishan Pushpamal, Frank T. Burbrink, Ruchira Somaweera. (2013). Genus-level phylogeny of snakes reveals the origins of species richness in Sri Lanka. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66 (3): 969-978.
      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 38 (4): 60-62.
      Somaweera, R., Pirro, S., & Pyron, R. A. (2025). The Complete Genome Sequences of 26 Species of Sri Lankan Snakes. Biodiversity Genomes.
      Wall, & FRANK. (1921). Ophidia Taprobanica or the Snakes of Ceylon. Colombo Mus. (H. R. Cottle, Govt. Printer), Colombo. Xxii, 581 Pages.
      Das, I., & De Silva, A. (2005). Photographic guide to snakes and other reptiles of Sri Lanka. New Holland Publishers, 144 Pp.
      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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