Common Wolf Snake (Lycodon aulicus) | Snake | Wildkeeda

 Common Wolf Snake (Lycodon aulicus) | Snake | Wildkeeda

 Common Wolf Snake

NON VENOMOUS

Lycodon aulicus

At hatching 140mm 6in) Adults 300mm (12in) Maximum 800 mm (32in)

Description

Thin-bodied; smooth-scaled. Flattened head slightly broader than neck: snout broad,. Eye entirely black. Glossy gray, brown or black above, usually with 10-20 narrow white or yellow bands that fork on sides of body. Neck usually has whitish or yellowish collar. Bands most distinct on forebody and either faint or entirely absent on hind body. Upper lip white or spotted with brown. Underside white. Some individuals are entirely unbanded. Often mistaken for the Common Krait (which has enlarged hexagonal vertebral scales), other species of wolf snakes or the rare Bridal Snake.

Scalation 

Scales in 17:17: 15 lines, smooth. Ventrals 172-214, firmly angulate along the side: butt-centric separated; subcaudals 57-80, combined. Loreal 1. in great contact with the internasal. not contacting eye: preocular 1: postoculars 2; temporals typically 2+2: supralabials 9 (3 to fifth contacting eye). 

Behavior

Carefully nighttime. Found in and around caverns, wells, stone heaps, empty trees and regularly in houses. Climbs harsh vertical dividers effortlessly. Grown-ups eat geckos and skinks. Lays 5-7 eggs in December January in the Chennai area: Walk July in North India. Anxious, typically chomps whenever took care of. 

Dispersion 

All through India (counting Lakshadweep however not the Andaman and Nicobar Islands). Additionally Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Myanmar. Old records from the Maldives should be reconfirmed, as they might be wrongly distinguished Oriental Wolf Snakes (Lycodon capucinus). 

Carbon copies 

Other wolf snakes. Common Krait. Bridal Snake.