Are these legal and in Canada?

[tegu_man]

I concur; wolf snakes would be illegal.

[edit]However after further looking into this:
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz...ensis%27%29%29
This wolf snake was never in the Dinodon genus. I would have to say to the letter of the law as I understand it, that this would be a legal species.

I'm not seeing anything that lists this genus or species as not allowed. I'm leaning toward them being legal.

[tegu_man]

Hmmm, this is a tough one. aren't they included in Subfamily Lycodontinae though? this stuff confuses the crap out of me.

[tegu_man]

never mind sub family is colubrinae

[FrogO_Oeyes]

Ignore the subfamily - that isn't a prohibition in this case, it's simply a [outdated] classification. Dinodon and Lycodon are not the same genera. Lycodon is fine, Dinodon is not.

Lycodontinae is no longer recognized, nor is Boiginae, and there has been a huge amount of shuffling of the listed names. None of the family-level classification matters in Alberta, legally speaking, since all listings are by genera and species. That said, new [and thus unlisted] genera of vipers and elapids which are not simply name changes of known species, would be problematic. Since the intent for vipers and elapids was to ensure ALL species were banned [and thus all were attempted to be listed by genus name in use at the time], while the intent for other groups was not [given that only a fraction of recognized members were listed individually], a legal contradiction exists for some previously unknown venomous species.