NATURAL HISTORY · CATALOGUE RECORD
Ceylon Wolf Snake
Lycodon carinatus (Kuhl, 1820)
Source-backed taxonomic record
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Open encyclopedia reference
Lycodon carianatus is a snake of the Colubridae family. It is endemic to the island of Sri Lanka. The snake is commonly known as the Ceylon wolf snake, and as දාර කරවලා (Daara Karawala) or දාර රදනකයා (daara radanakayaa) in Sinhala.
Wikipedia contributors, Lycodon carinatus; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T08:10:02.583093+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Lycodon carinatus (Kuhl, 1820)
- Name authority
- (Kuhl, 1820)
- Common name
- Ceylon Wolf Snake
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Lycodon
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- megaclassTetrapoda
- classReptilia Laurenti, 1768
- orderSquamata Oppel, 1811
- suborderSerpentes Linnaeus, 1758
- infraorderAlethinophidia Nopcsa, 1923
- familyColubridae
- subfamilyColubrinae
- genusLycodon
- speciesLycodon carinatus (Kuhl, 1820)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Lycodon. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Alcala's Wolf SnakeLycodon alcalai Ota & Ross, 1994 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| David’s Wolf SnakeLycodon davidi Vogel, Nguyen, Kingsada & Ziegler, 2012 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Brown Wolf SnakeLycodon effraenis Cantor, 1847 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Yellow-collared wolf snakeLycodon flavicollis Mukherjee & Bhupathy, 2007 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Big-tooth SnakeLycodon flavozonatus (Pope, 1928) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gammie's Wolf SnakeLycodon gammiei (Blanford, 1878) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gongshan Wolf SnakeLycodon gongshan Vogel & Luo, 2011 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Twin-spotted Wolf SnakeLycodon jara (Shaw, 1802) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Laotian Wolf SnakeLycodon laoensis Günther, 1864 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lycodon liuchengchaoi Zhang, Jiang, Vogel & Rao, 2011 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Müller’s Wolf SnakeLycodon muelleri Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Luding Kukri SnakeLycodon multizonatus (Zhao & Jiang, 1981) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Hurria carinata Kuhl, 1820 Kuhl, 1820 | synonym |
Documented distribution
Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Lycodon&species=carinatus Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:3WL22. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.