Lycodon bibonius Ota and Ross, 1994

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Crombie’s Asian Wolf Snake

Lycodon bibonius Ota and Ross, 1994:162–165, figs. 6–7.— Lanza, 1999:89. 97.— Gaulke, 2002:89–90.— Oliveros, Ota, Crombie, and Brown, 2011:15, fig. 7C.— Siler, Oliveros, Santanen, and Brown, 2013:268, fig. 3.— Wallach, Williams, and Boundy, 2014:391.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— ca. 1.5 km E of Mambit (elev. 70 m), Camiguin Norte Island, Babuyan Islands, off of northern Luzon Id., Philippines. Holotype: PNM 2044.

PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION (ENDEMIC) (Map 21B [p. 132]).— Babuyan Ids. (Babuyan Claro, Camiguin Norte).

REMARKS.— Siler et al. (2013) demonstrated a close relationship between L. bibonius and L. alcalai .

CONSERVATION STATUS [IUCN].— Least Concern [2016] ver. 3.1.