Big-tooth snake
Lycodon flavozonatus (Pope, 1928)
Status not recordedsnakes
The big-tooth snake (Lycodon flavozonatus) is a species in the family Colubridae, order Squamata. Recorded adults live up to 13.7 years.
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Quick facts about the big-tooth snake
- Weight
- up to 295.9 gsrc for Weight
- Length
- up to 1.44 msrc for Length
- Lifespan
- 13.7 yearssrc for Lifespan
- Diet
- Carnivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- forestsrc for Habitat
- Egg incubation
- 49 dayssrc for Egg incubation
- Young per litter or clutch
- 7.5src for Young per litter or clutch
- Reproduction
- Eggssrc for Reproduction
- Active
- At night (nocturnal)src for Active
- Lifestyle
- Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- Not recorded
Where does the big-tooth snake live?
Not recorded
Is the big-tooth 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 big-tooth snake classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classReptilia
- orderSquamata
- familyColubridae
- genusLycodon
- SpeciesLycodon flavozonatus (Pope, 1928)
Synonyms Dinodon flavozonatum, Dinodon meridionale, Dinodon meridionale, Dinodon rufozonatum meridionale, Lycodon flavozontum, Lycodon meridionale
Other names and names in other languages (10)
- Vietnamese big-toothed wolf snakeEnglish
- Yellow large-toothed snakeEnglish
- Yellow-banded big tooth snakeEnglish
- Yellow-spotted wolf snakeEnglish
- Gelbband-WolfszahnnatterGerman
- Gelbgebänderte GroßzahnnatterGerman
- Желтопоясный динодонRussian
- 黃鏈蛇Chinese
- 南方鏈蛇Chinese
- 黄链蛇Chinese
Relatives of the big-tooth 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
CompareBig-tooth snake vs Common wolf snakeBig-tooth snake vs Common wolf snakeBig-tooth snake vs Wolf snakeBig-tooth snake vs Red-banded snake
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How long does the big-tooth snake live?
The big-tooth snake has a recorded lifespan of 13.7 years.
What kind of animal is the big-tooth snake?
The big-tooth snake (Lycodon flavozonatus) 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.
- An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles · CC0 1.0 · E096-269
Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1 - 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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