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    Species Accepted

    Lycodon aulicus (Linnaeus, 1758)

    Common Wolf Snake

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Recorded as introduced in 3 countries or islands

      3 results
      Introduced inAccording toInvasiveOccurrences in GBIF
      MauritiusNo
      PhilippinesNo
      RéunionYes

      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      22 results
      Colubro lupo indiano Italian
      Common Wolf Snake English
      Couleuvre loup French
      Gewöhnliche Wolfszahnnatter German
      Indian Wolf Snake English
      Indische Wolfszahnnatter German
      Indische Wolfzahnnatter German
      Indisk Ulvesnog Danish
      Lycodon aulique French
      Serpente lupo indiano Italian

      Treatments

      3 results

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      174 results
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      Sengupta D et al. (2019). Assessment of the Reptilian Fauna in the Brahmaputra Plains of Two Districts in Assam, India. Ircf 26 (1): 65-67.
      Vishnu, S. N., & Chinnasamy Ramesh. (2021). Predation on a Common Wolfsnake, Lycodon aulicus (Colubridae), by an Indian Roller, Coracias benghalensis (Coraciidae), in the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India. Reptiles & Amphibians 28 (1): 157-158.
      Jayakumar, A.M. & P.O. Nameer. (2018). Species composition and abundance estimates of reptiles in selected agroecosystems in southern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 10(10): 12328–12336;
      Ingle, Mukesh; Ulka Yadav, Ashok K. Bhilala, Manohar Pawar. (2019). Urban Herpetofauna: A Case Study in Ujjain City of Central India. International Journal of Scientific Research in Biological Sciences 6 (5): 76-84.
      Wang, Kai; Jinlong Ren, Hongman Chen, Zhitong Lyu, Xianguang Guo Ke Jiang, Jinmin Chen, Jiatang Li, Peng Guo, Yingyong Wang, Jing Che. (2020). The updated checklists of amphibians and reptiles of China. Biodiversity Science 28 (2): 189-218.
      Baral, R., & Kadariya, R. (2025). Herpetofauna of the Annapurna Conservation Area. Snake Conservation Society Nepal and National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC), Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP), Nepal. 84 Pp.
      Corlett, R. T. (2011). Vertebrate carnivores and predation in the oriental (Indomalayan) region. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 59 (2): 325–360.
      Wall, F. (1907). Notes on Snakes collected in Fyzabad. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 18: 101-129.
      Deshmukh, Rahul V.; Sagar A. Deshmukh, Swapnil A. Badhekar, and Roshan Y. Naitame. (2020). Snakes of Bhandara District, Maharashtra, Central India with notes on natural history. IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 27 (1): 10–17.

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