Lycodryas

Lycodryas maculatus

Taxonavigation

Ordo: Squamata
Familia: Lamprophiidae
Genus: Lycodryas

Name

• Lycodryas Günther, 1879

Type species

• Dipsadoboa maculata Günther, 1858. The genus was erected with the description of Lycodryas sanctijohannis Günther, 1879, which was placed in Synonymy of Lycodryas maculatus by Hawlitschek et al. (2012).

Selected species

Lycodryas maculatus, Lycodryas cococola

References

• 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.
• Günther, A. 1858: Catalogue of Colubrine snakes of the British Museum. London: I - XVI, 1-281.
• Günther, A. 1879: On mammals and reptiles from Johanna, Comoro Islands. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5), 3: 215-219.
• Hawlitschek, O., Nagy, Z. & Glaw, F. 2012: Island evolution and systematic revision of Comoran snakes: why and when subspecies still make sense. PLoS ONE, 7(8): e42970.
• 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.