Achalinus damingensis XU, YANG, WU, GONG, HUANG & HUANG, 2023
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Achalinus damingensis
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| Higher Taxa | Xenodermidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Synonym | Achalinus damingensis XU, YANG, WU, GONG, HUANG & HUANG in YANG et al. 2023: 395 |
| Distribution | China (Guangxi) Type locality: Daming Mountain (23°29′54.04′′ N, 108°26′22.15′′ E, 1272 m a. s. l.), Shanglin County, Nanning City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype. ANU20220009 (collection number: HSR22147), an adult male, was collected by Jiaxiang Wu, Jun Xiang & Zhenglian Feng on August 1, 2022 at 3:40 p.m. It was found trapped in an abandoned pool with some water in it. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis. The new species of Achalinus can be distinguished from its congeners on the basis of the following combination of characters: (1) dorsum (head, body and tail) predominantly brownish-black, slightly tinged with iridescence; a bright yellow collar around the neck, extending forward to the ventral of the head; (2) DSR 23–23–23, moderately keeled; (3) TaL/ToL ratio 0.25 in the single male; (4) length of suture between internasal significantly longer than that between prefrontal, LSBI/LSBP ratio 1.34; (5) supralabials 6, the fourth and fifth in contact with the eye; (6) infralabials 6, the first three touching the first pair of chin shields; (7) temporals 7, arranged in three rows (2+2+3), the anterior pair elongated, in contact with the eye; (8) a single loreal; (9) ventrals 3+162; (10) subcaudals 74, unpaired; (11) cloacal plate entire; (12) two pairs of chin shields; (13) longitudinal vertebral line absent, with a dotted black streak in the middle of the subcaudals absent. (Xu et al. 2023: 395) |
| Comment | Abundance: only known from a single specimen (2023). |
| Etymology | Named after the type locality. |
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