White-banded Wolf Snake

White-banded Wolf Snake (Dinodon septentrionalis) is a snake recorded for Vietnam in the project inventory. Its supporting occurrence note is “GBIF: 9 Vietnam records”. The accepted scientific name is retained because regional snake taxonomy and species boundaries can change, while similar-looking species may require scale counts, anatomy or genetic evidence for reliable separation. This profile therefore distinguishes the recorded identity and occurrence from broader biological context instead of inventing unsupported locality, size, diet or breeding details (project species data; Reptile Database taxonomy).

Dinodon is a historically used wolf-snake genus for nocturnal, terrestrial or climbing hunters of small vertebrates. Several species formerly placed here have been transferred to Lycodon, so current identification depends on accepted taxonomy, scalation and locality rather than common-name resemblance. Banded patterns may resemble venomous snakes but are not diagnostic. These are genus-level notes rather than Vietnamese field observations, and exact size, habitat, diet and clutch information is omitted (general Dinodon context; Reptile Database).