Achalinus

Achalinus spinalis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Xenodermoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Xenodermoidea

Familia: Xenodermidae
Genus: Achalinus
Species (18): A. ater – A. emilyae – A. formosanus – A. hainanus – A. jinggangensis – A. juliani – A. meiguensis – A. niger – A. ningshanensis – A. pingbianensis – A. rufescens – A. spinalis – A. timi – A. tranganensis – A. vanhoensis – A. werneri – A. yunkaiensis – A. zugorum

Name

Achalinus Peters, 1869: 436

Type species: Achalinus spinalis Peters, 1869, by monotypy.

Synonymy

Ophielaps Sauvage, 1877: 108
Cochalinus Rhumbler, 1910: 468
Achalinopsis Steindachner, 1913: 218
Ophiolaps Maki, 1931: 57 (nomen incorrectum)
Stoliczkaia (part) Fan, 1931: 44
Achalimus Wang & Wang, 1956 (nomen incorrectum)
Achalinapsis Wang & Wang, 1956 (nomen incorrectum)

References

Primary references

Peters, W.C.H. 1869. Über neue Gattungen und neue oder weniger bekannte Arten von Amphibien (Eremias, Dicrodon, Euprepes, Lygosoma, Typhlops, Eryx, Rhynchonyx, Elapomorphus, Achalinus, Coronella, Dromicus, Xenopholis, Anoplodipsas, Spilotes, Tropidonotus). Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1869: 432–445. BHL Reference page.
Sauvage, H.E. 1877. Sur quelques ophidiens d'espèces nouvelles ou peu connues de la collection du Muséum. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris (1876-1877) (Série 7) 1:107–115. BHL Reference page.
Rhumbler, L. 1910. Über eine zweckmässige Weieterbildung der Linnéschen binären nomenklatur. Zoologischer Anzeiger 36(26): 453-471. BHL Reference page.
Steindachner, F. 1913. Über zwei neue Schlangengenarten von Formosa. Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 50(12): 218–220. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Fan, T.-H. 1931. Preliminary report of reptiles from Yaoshan, Kwangsi, China. Bulletin of the Department of Biology, Sun Yatsen University 11: 1–154, 9 pls. Reference page.
Maki, M. 1931. A Monograph of the Snakes of Japan. Dai-ichi Shobo: Tokyo. 240 pp. Reference page.
Wang, C.S. & Wang, Y.H.M. 1956. The reptile [sic] of Taiwan. Quarterly Journal of the Taiwan Museum 9(1): 1-86. Reference page.
Wallach, V., Williams, K.L. & Boundy, J. 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 1237 pp. ISBN 9781138034006 Reference page.
Ziegler, T., Nguyen, T.Q., Pham, C.T., Nguyen, T.T., Pham, A.V., Schingen, M.V., Nguyen, T.T. & Le, M.D. 2019. Three new species of the snake genus Achalinus from Vietnam (Squamata: Xenodermatidae). Zootaxa 4590(2): 249–269. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4590.2.3 . Reference page.
Boundy, J. 2021. Snakes of the World: A Supplement. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 273 pp. ISBN 9781138618138 ebook Reference page.
Ha, N.V., Ziegler, T., Sy, T.D., Le, M.D., Nguyen, T.Q. & Luu, V.Q. 2022. A new species of the genus Achalinus (Squamata: Xenodermidae) from Son La Province, Vietnam. Zootaxa 5168(3): 375–387. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5168.3.8 Reference page.
Yang, D.-C., Huang, R.-Y., Jiang, K., Burbrink, F.T., Gong, Y.-A., Yu, J., Zhang, Y., Huang, T.-Q. & Huang, S. 2022. A new species of the genus Achalinus (Squamata: Xenodermidae) from Ningshan County, Shaanxi Province, China. Zootaxa 5190(1): 127–140. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5190.1.5 Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2022. Achalinus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 18 October 2019.

Vernacular names

English: Odd-scaled Snakes

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