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Huaping wolf snake

Lycodon cathaya Wang, Qi, Lyu, Zeng & Wang, 2020

Status not recordedsnakes

The huaping wolf snake (Lycodon cathaya) is a species in the family Colubridae, order Squamata. Source checklists list it for 1 country: China.

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Quick facts about the huaping wolf snake

Weight
Not recorded
Length
up to 91.1 cmsrc for Length
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Carnivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Active
At night (nocturnal)src for Active
Lifestyle
Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the huaping 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 huaping wolf snake is listed for 1 country.

China
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. China

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: ReptileDB (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

Is the huaping 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 huaping wolf snake classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classReptilia
  4. orderSquamata
  5. familyColubridae
  6. genusLycodon
  7. SpeciesLycodon cathaya Wang, Qi, Lyu, Zeng & Wang, 2020
Other names and names in other languages (4)
  • 银杉狼齿蛇Catalan
  • 花坪链蛇Chinese
  • 花坪白环蛇Chinese
  • 花坪白環蛇Chinese

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistWikidata

Relatives of the huaping wolf snake

Other species in the same genus Lycodon.

Wolf snake

Lycodon striatus

ColubridaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the huaping wolf snake live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the huaping wolf snake for 1 country: China. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the huaping wolf snake?

The huaping wolf snake (Lycodon cathaya) 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
  • 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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CreatureData. (2026). Huaping wolf snake (Lycodon cathaya). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/huaping-wolf-snake

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BibTeX
@misc{huaping_wolf_snake_2026,
  title = {Huaping wolf snake (Lycodon cathaya)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/huaping-wolf-snake},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}