A new species of wolf snake Lycodon Fitzinger, 1826 from China and Myanmar (Squamata: Colubridae), and new data on Lycodon gongshan Vogel & Luo, 2011статья
Статья опубликована в журнале из списка Web of Science и/или Scopus
Аннотация:We describe a new species of wolf snake in the genus Lycodon Fitzinger based on eight specimens collected from the Xizang Autonomous Region of southwestern China and the Sagaing Region of northern Myanmar (Burma). The new species, Lycodon latifasciatus sp. nov., was previously confused with Lycodon fasciatus Anderson and Lycodon gongshan Vogel and Luo but differs from each species by having a broad series of dark brown and orange colored dorsal crossbands and a higher number of subcaudal scales. Phylogenetic analyses based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences (16s ribosomal RNA, cytochrome b, and recombination activation gene 1) recover Lycodon latifasciatus sp. nov. as an outgroup of a clade containing Lycodon fasciatus, Lycodon gongshan, Lycodon butleri Boulenger, L. cavernicolus Grismer, Quah, Anuar, Muin, Wood and Nor, and L. sidiki Wostl, Hamidy, Kurniawan and Smith. A redescription with new molecular and morphological data of L. gongshan is provided, including the first documented record of this species from Myanmar and confirmation of recent records from Sichuan Province, China.
