Kingdom Animalia Subphylum Vertebrata Order Squamata Scientific name Lycodon jara | Phylum Chordata Class Reptilia Suborder Serpentes Rank Species | |
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Similar Lycodon flavomaculatus, Lycodon travancoricus, Lycodon, Lycodon laoensis, Lycodon striatus | ||
Lycodon jara, commonly known as the twin-spotted wolf snake, is a species of colubrid snake. It is endemic to Asia.
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Distribution
Found in Bangladesh, India (Assam, northern Orissa Ganjam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nadia District, West Bengal and parts of Uttar Pradesh) and Nepal.
Description
Snout much depressed; eye rather small. Rostral much broader than long, just visible from above; internasals much shorter than the prefrontals; frontal as long as or a little shorter than its distance from the end of the snout, a little shorter than the parietals; loreal elongate, not entering the eye; one pre-ocular; two post-oculars; temporals small, 1 + 2; 9 or 10 upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye; 4 or 5 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are longer than the posterior.
Dorsal scales smooth, in 17 rows. Ventrals 167-175, not angulate laterally; anal divided; subcaudals 56-63, in two rows.
[Coloration in alcohol:] brown above, each scale with two white dots or short longitudinal lines; labials white; usually a white collar; lower surface uniform white.
Total length 35 cm (13¾ inches); tail 6 cm (2⅜ inches).