Banded wolf snake
Lycodon fasciatus (Anderson, 1879)
Status not recordedsnakes
The banded wolf snake (Lycodon fasciatus) is a species in the family Colubridae, order Squamata. Source checklists list it for 1 country: India.
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Quick facts about the banded wolf snake
- Weight
- up to 88.5 gsrc for Weight
- Length
- up to 95.6 cmsrc for Length
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Carnivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- forestsrc for Habitat
- Young per litter or clutch
- 4 – 14src for Young per litter or clutch
- Reproduction
- Eggssrc for Reproduction
- Active
- At night (nocturnal)src for Active
- Lifestyle
- Arborealsrc for Lifestyle
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- 1 countrysrc for Countries on record
Where does the banded wolf snake live?
Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.
The banded wolf snake is listed for 1 country.
- Listed
- Not listed
The same countries as a list
Why a country list is not a range map
Listed by: ReptileDB (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.
Is the banded wolf snake endangered?
No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.
How is the banded wolf snake classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classReptilia
- orderSquamata
- familyColubridae
- genusLycodon
- SpeciesLycodon fasciatus (Anderson, 1879)
Synonyms Dinodon yunnanensis, Ophites fasciatus
Other names and names in other languages (7)
- Gulbåndet UlvesnogDanish
- Gebänderte WolfszahnnatterGerman
- Полосатый волкозубRussian
- งูปล้องฉนวนเมืองเหนือThai
- Rắn khuyết đốmVietnamese
- 双全白环蛇Chinese
- 雙全白環蛇Chinese
Relatives of the banded wolf snake
Other species in the same genus Lycodon.
Common wolf snake
Lycodon capucinus
Common wolf snake
Lycodon aulicus
Wolf snake
Lycodon striatus
Red-banded snake
Lycodon rufozonatus
Oriental odd-tooth snake
Lycodon orientalis
White-banded wolf snake
Lycodon subcinctus
CompareBanded wolf snake vs Common wolf snakeBanded wolf snake vs Common wolf snakeBanded wolf snake vs Wolf snakeBanded wolf snake vs Red-banded snake
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
Where does the banded wolf snake live?
Catalogue of Life checklists list the banded wolf snake for 1 country: India. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.
What kind of animal is the banded wolf snake?
The banded wolf snake (Lycodon fasciatus) belongs to the family Colubridae in the order Squamata.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.
- Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf - ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles · CC BY 4.0 · v1-2
Oskyrko, O., Mi, C., Meiri, S. et al. (2024) ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles. Scientific Data 11: 243. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03079-5. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24572683.v4 - SquamBase 1.0 - a dataset of squamate species traits · CC0 1.0 · 1.0-dryad-v5
Meiri, S. (2024) SquamBase - a database of squamate (Reptilia: Squamata) traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33(4): e13812. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13812. Data: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.76hdr7t3b
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