- Dinodon septentrionalis
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White-banded Wolf Snake Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Serpentes Family: Colubridae Genus: Dinodon Species: D. septentrionalis Binomial name Dinodon septentrionalis
(Günther, 1875)Synonyms White-banded Wolf Snake, or Northern Large-toothed Snake, or Dinodon septentrionalis (dinodon: Neolatin from Greek δεινός "terrible" and ὀδούς "tooth"; septentrionalis: Latin "northern" from the phrase septem triones, meaning "seven plough oxen", indicating the seven stars of Ursa Major or Minor), is a species of snake.
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Description
Snout moderately depressed, not spatulate; eye rather small. Rostral much broader than deep, visiblo from above; internasals much shorter than the prefrontals; frontal slightly longer than broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the panetals; loreal small, elongate, not entering the eye; one pre- and two postoculars ; temporals 2+3; 8 upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye; 5 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are longer than the posterior. Scales in 17 rows, those of seven middle rows feebly keeled. Ventrals 214, angulate laterally; anal entire; subcaudals 83, in two rows. Black above and on the sides, with narrow whitish transverse bands, forming complete annuli on the tail, the lower surface of which is dark brown; belly whitish, with a few scattered small brown spots posteriorly. Total length 3 feet; tail 8 inches.[1]
Distribution
Notes
- ^ Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.
References
- Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
- Günther,A. 1875 Second report on collections of Indian Reptiles obtained bv the British Museum. Proc. Zool. Soc. London,1875: 224-234.
- Günther, A. 1888 On a collection of reptiles from China. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 1: 165-172
- Definitions of septentrion from Dictionary.com
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