Lycodon mackinnoni

Lycodon mackinnoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Colubrinae
Genus:	Lycodon
Species:	L. mackinnoni
Binomial name
Lycodon mackinnoni Wall,1906

Lycodon mackinnoni, commonly known as Mackinnon's wolf snake, is a species of colubrid snake, which is endemic to Asia.

Etymology

The specific name, mackinnoni, is in honor of naturalist Philip W. Mackinnon, who collected the type specimen "in his own garden at 6,100 ft" (1,900 m).^[1][2]

Geographic range

L. mackinnoni is found in India (in the western Himalayas).^[3]

Footnotes

1. Wall, 1906.
2. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Lycodon mackinnoni, p. 165).
3. "Lycodon mackinnoni ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

• Lanza B. 1999. A new species of Lycodon from the Philippines, with a key to the genus (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae). Tropical Zoology 12: 89-104.
• Smith MA. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia, Vol. III.—Serpentes. London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (Lycodon mackinnoni, p. 263).
• Wall F. 1906. A New Himalayan Snake (Lycodon mackinnoni ). J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 17: 29-30.
• Wall F. 1923. A Hand-list of the Snakes of the Indian Empire. Part 2. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 29: 598-632.