Achalinus spinalis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Xenodermidae
- Genus
- Achalinus
- Species
- Achalinus spinalis
- Scientific Name
- Achalinus spinalis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Achalinus spinalis
Achalinus spinalis, commonly known as Peters' odd-scaled snake, the Japanese odd-scaled snake, the Japanese ground snake or the grey burrowing snake, is a species of snake in the family Xenodermidae.
The species is found in northern Vietnam, Japan (Kyūshū, Honshū, the Ryukyu Islands, Koshiki, Tokuno-shima: Kametoku and Inokawa), and central China (east to Fujian, west to Yunnan and Sichuan, and north to Gansu and Shaanxi, and in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Hubei) at an elevation of 1,230 m.
Achalinus spinalis in languages:
- English
- Peters' Odd-scaled Snake
- Japanese
- タカチホヘビ
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Achalinus ater
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- Achalinus meiguensis
- Achalinus niger
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- Achalinus pingbianensis
- Achalinus rufescens
- Achalinus spinalis
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- Achalinus tranganensis
- Achalinus vanhoensis
- Achalinus werneri
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