Lycophidion
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Lycophidion is a genus
of colubrid
snake
s commonly referred to as the Wolf snakes.
The genus contains the following species:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of colubrid
Colubrid
A colubrid is a member of the snake family Colubridae. This broad classification of snakes includes about two-thirds of all snake species on earth. The earliest species of the snake family date back to the Oligocene epoch. With 304 genera and 1,938 species, Colubridae is the largest snake family...
snake
Snake
Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...
s commonly referred to as the Wolf snakes.
The genus contains the following species:
- Lycophidion meleagris
- Lycophidion acutirostre
- Lycophidion laterale
- Lycophidion semiannulis
- Lycophidion capenseLycophidion capenseLycophidion capense, or the Cape wolf snake, is an oviparous, non-venomous snake which occurs over a wide area of south to central Africa. The species contains a number of subspecies, including L. capense capense....
Cape wolf snake - Lycophidion jacksoni
- Lycophidion irroratum
- Lycophidion semicinctum
- Lycophidion abyssinicum
- Lycophidion fasciatum
- Lycophidion elapoides
- Lycophidion pygmaeum