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Common wolf snake

Lycodon aulicus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Status not recordedsnakes

The common wolf snake (Lycodon aulicus) 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 common wolf snake

Weight
up to 66.5 gsrc for Weight
Length
up to 1.2 msrc for Length
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Carnivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
7 – 7.5src 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 common 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 common wolf snake is listed for 1 country.

India
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. India

Why a country list is not a range map

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

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the common wolf snake as introduced in 2 countries.

  1. Mauritius
  2. Philippines

Also listed for parts of: France (Reunion, invasive).

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the common 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 common wolf snake classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classReptilia
  4. orderSquamata
  5. familyColubridae
  6. genusLycodon
  7. SpeciesLycodon aulicus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms Coluber aulicus, Lycodon atropurpureus, Lycodon aulicus oligozonatus, Lycodon subfuscus, Lycodon unicolor, Natrix aulica, Ophites aulicus

Other names and names in other languages (21)
  • Indian wolf snakeEnglish
  • Indisk UlvesnogDanish
  • Indische WolfzahnnatterGerman
  • Gewöhnliche WolfszahnnatterGerman
  • Indische WolfszahnnatterGerman
  • ނައްނުގަތިDivehi
  • Serpiente Lobo IndiaSpanish
  • Serpiente lobo de la IndiaSpanish
  • Couleuvre loupFrench
  • Lycodon auliqueFrench
  • Ular rumahIndonesian
  • Colubro lupo indianoItalian
  • Serpente lupo indianoItalian
  • भारतीय कवड्याMarathi
  • Домовый волкозубRussian
  • අළු රදනකයාSinhala
  • சாதாரண வெள்ளிக்கோல் வரையன்Tamil
  • Вовкозуб будинковийUkrainian
  • 白环蛇Chinese
  • 堂皇狼齿蛇Chinese
  • 白環鏈蛇Chinese

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Relatives of the common wolf snake

Other species in the same genus Lycodon.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the common wolf snake live?

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

Is the common wolf snake an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the common wolf snake as introduced in 2 countries: Mauritius and Philippines, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the common wolf snake?

The common wolf snake (Lycodon aulicus) belongs to the family Colubridae in the order Squamata.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-13. How this page is put together.

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BibTeX
@misc{lycodon_aulicus_2026,
  title = {Common wolf snake (Lycodon aulicus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/lycodon-aulicus},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-13}
}