Photo of a Banded Wolf Snake (Lycodon fasciatus)
Photo: Woraphot Bunkhwamdi, CC BY-NC, via iNaturalist

Banded Wolf Snake

Lycodon fasciatus

Venom
Not venomous
Constrictor
Not documented
Type
Colubrid
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Lycodon
Continents
Asia
Countries
7
How common
Common

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About

Banded Wolf Snake (Lycodon fasciatus) is a non-venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar and 2 more. It lives in habitats such as tropical rainforest, tropical moist forest, tropical montane forest, montane rainforest and 26 more. Common: recorded in 81 places on iNaturalist.

Where it lives

Native range

Habitats

Estimated from where this snake is recorded and what kind of snake it is - not a confirmed habitat survey.

Related snakes

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