Photo of a Banks' Wolf Snake (Lycodon banksi)
Photo: Thomas Calame, CC BY-NC, via iNaturalist

Banks' Wolf Snake

Lycodon banksi

Venom
Not venomous
Constrictor
Not documented
Type
Colubrid
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Lycodon
Continents
Asia
Countries
1
How common
Rare

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About

Banks' Wolf Snake (Lycodon banksi) is a non-venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Laos. It lives in habitats such as forest edges, abandoned buildings, roadsides. Rare: no confirmed iNaturalist sightings.

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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