Lycodryas cococola

Lycodryas cococola cococola, male, from Grand Comoro Island

Lycodryas cococola cococola, female, from Grand Comoro Island

Lycodryas cococola innocens, male, from Moheli Island

Lycodryas cococola innocens, female, from Moheli Island

Species: Lycodryas cococola

Name

• Lycodryas cococola Hawlitschek, Nagy et Glaw, 2012

Synonyms

• Lycodryas sanctijohannis Günther, 1879

Subspecies

• Lycodryas cococola cococola Hawlitschek, Nagy et Glaw, 2012
• Lycodryas cococola innocens Hawlitschek, Nagy et Glaw, 2012

References

• Günther, A. 1858: Catalogue of Colubrine snakes of the British Museum. London: I - XVI, 1-281.
• Peters, W.C.H. 1874: Vorläufige Mittheilung über eine von Hrn. F. Pollen und van Dam auf Madagascar und anderen ostafrikanischen Inseln gemachte Sammlung von Amphibien. Monatsber. königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin: 792–795.
• Günther, A. 1879: On mammals and reptiles from Johanna, Comoro Islands. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5), 3: 215-219.
• Boulenger, G.A. 1896: Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis): 727 pp.
• Domergue, C.A. 1970: Notes sur les serpents de la région malgache. Lycodryas maculatus (Günther, 1858), espèce des Comores. Description de deux femelles. Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat., Paris 3: 449-451.
• Nagy, Z.T., Glaw, F. & Vences, M. 2010: Systematics of the snake genera Stenophis and Lycodryas from Madagascar and the Comoros. Zoologica Scripta, 39: 426–435.
• Hawlitschek, O., Nagy, Z. & Glaw, F. (in press): Island evolution and systematic revision of Comoran snakes: why and when subspecies still make sense. PLoS ONE.