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FIGURE 6 in A new species of wolf snake Lycodon Fitzinger, 1826 from China and Myanmar (Squamata: Colubridae), and new data on Lycodon gongshan Vogel & Luo, 2011

  • 1. Institute for Research and Training in Medicine, Biology and Pharmacy, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, 550000, Vietnam & College of Medicine and Pharmacy, Duy Tan University, 120 Hoang Minh Thao, Lien Chieu, Da Nang, 550000, Vietnam
  • 2. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
  • 3. CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization, Ecological Restoration and Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610040, Sichuan, China
  • 4. Department of Zoology, University of Mandalay, 05032 Maha Aung Myay Township, Mandalay, Myanmar
  • 5. Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskiye Gory, GSP-1, Moscow 119991, Russia & Joint Vietnam - Russia Tropical Science and Technology Research Centre, Nghia Do, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam
  • 6. Society for South East Asian Herpetology, Im Sand-3, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany

Description

FIGURE 6. Morphological comparisons between Lycodon latifasciatus sp. nov., L. fasciatus, and L. gongshan showing differences in head shape and coloration between adult and subadult specimens in right lateral (1), dorsal (2), and ventral (3) views, respectively. (A–B) L. latifasciatus sp. nov., (A) CAS 245367 (adult male) and (B) CIB DL.053 (adult female). (C–D) L. fasciatus, (C) FMNH 270716 (adult male), (D) CAS 245498 (subadult female). (E–F) L. gongshan, (E) CAS 241963 (adult male), (F) CAS 245470 (subadult male). Photos by J. L. Lee (A, C–F) and G. Vogel (B).

Notes

Published as part of Nguyen, Tan Van, Lee, Justin L., Jiang, Ke, Ding, Li, Chit, May Thu, Poyarkov, Nikolay A. & Vogel, Gernot, 2025, A new species of wolf snake Lycodon Fitzinger, 1826 from China and Myanmar (Squamata: Colubridae), and new data on Lycodon gongshan Vogel & Luo, 2011, pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5621 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5621.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15220009

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