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Covid-19 Lycodon snakes , commonly known as wolf snakes . The New Latin name Lycodon is derived from the Greek words λύκος (lykos ) meaning wolf and οδόν (odon ) meaning tooth, and refers to the fang-like anterior maxillary and mandibular teeth.
The genus Lycodon comprises 51 recognized species .
Lycodon alcalai Ota & Ross, 1994 Lycodon aulicus (Linnaeus , 1758) Lycodon bibonius Ota & Ross, 1994 Lycodon butleri Boulenger , 1900Lycodon capucinus F. Boie , 1827Lycodon cardamomensis Daltry & Wüster, 2002 Lycodon carinatus (Kuhl , 1820) Lycodon cavernicolus Grismer et al., 2011 Lycodon chrysoprateros Ota & Ross, 1994 Lycodon davidi G. Vogel et al., 2012 Lycodon dumerili (Boulenger , 1893) Lycodon effraenis Cantor, 1847 Lycodon fasciatus (J. Anderson , 1879) Lycodon fausti Gaulke, 2002 Lycodon ferroni Lanza, 1999 Lycodon flavicollis Mukherjee & Bhupathy, 2007 Lycodon flavomaculatus Wall, 1907 Lycodon flavozonatus (Pope, 1928) Lycodon futsingensis (Pope, 1928) Lycodon gammiei (Blanford , 1878) Lycodon gongshan G. Vogel & Luo, 2011 Lycodon hypsirhinoides (Theobald , 1868) Lycodon jara (Shaw , 1802) Lycodon kundui M.A. Smith , 1943Lycodon laoensis Günther, 1864 Lycodon liuchengchaoi Zhang et al., 2011 Lycodon mackinnoni Wall, 1906 Lycodon meridionale (Bourret, 1935) Lycodon muelleri A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 Lycodon multifasciatus (Maki, 1931) Lycodon multizonatus (Zhao & Jiang, 1981) Lycodon odishii Mallik et al., 2014 Lycodon ophiophagus G. Vogel et al., 2009 Lycodon orientalis (Hilgendorf , 1880) Lycodon osmanhilli Taylor, 1950 Lycodon paucifasciatus Rendahl in M.A. Smith , 1943 Lycodon rosozonatus (Hu & Zhao, 1972) Lycodon rufozonatus Cantor, 1842 Lycodon ruhstrati (Fischer, 1886) Lycodon semicarinatus (Cope , 1860) Lycodon septentrionalis (Günther, 1875) Lycodon solivagus Ota & Ross, 1994 Lycodon stormi Boettger , 1892Lycodon striatus (Shaw, 1802) Lycodon subcinctus F. Boie, 1827 Lycodon synaptor G. Vogel & David, 2010 Lycodon tessellatus Jan , 1863Lycodon tiwarii Biswas & Sanyal, 1965 Lycodon travancoricus (Beddome , 1870) Lycodon zawi Slowinski et al., 2001Lycodon zoosvictoriae Neang et al., 2014 Nota bene binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Lycodon .
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