Wolf snake

Weight

up to 19 gsrc for Weight

Length

up to 56 cmsrc for Length

Lifespan

Not recorded

Diet

Carnivoresrc for Diet

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

desert, shrublandsrc for Habitat

Young per litter or clutch

2.5src for Young per litter or clutch

Reproduction

Eggssrc for Reproduction

Active

At night (nocturnal)src for Active

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

Not recorded

Not recorded

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.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classReptilia
4. orderSquamata
5. familyColubridae
6. genusLycodon
7. SpeciesLycodon striatus (Shaw, 1802)

Synonyms Coluber malignus, Coluber striatus, Lycodon galathea, Lycodon napei, Lycodon striatus sinhaleyus

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistITISWikidata

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• 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

@misc{wolf_snake_2026,
  title = {Wolf snake (Lycodon striatus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/wolf-snake},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-13}
}