Achalinus panzhihuaensis HOU, WANG, GUO, CHEN, YUAN & CHE, 2021
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Achalinus panzhihuaensis
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| Higher Taxa | Xenodermidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Panzhihua Odd-scaled Snake Chinese: 攀枝 花脊蛇 (Pinyin: Pan Zhi Hua Ji She) |
| Synonym | Achalinus panzhihuaensis HOU, WANG, GUO, CHEN, YUAN & CHE 2021: 535 |
| Distribution | China (Sichuan) Type locality: Hongbao Village (27.00°N, 101.53°E), Yanbian County, Panzhihua, Sichuan Province, China. |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype. KIZ 040189, adult male, collected by Benfu Miao and Kai Wang on 10 May 2018. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Achalinus panzhihuaensis sp. nov. can be distinguished from recognized congeners by a combination of the following characters: (1) TaL/ToL 24.6% in the single male; (2) two nasal scales in contact with each other behind the rostral; (3) internasal absent; (4) loreal rectangular; (5) supralabials 6; (6) postocular single and small; (7) temporals 2+2+3, anterior pair elongated, upper one smaller, only uppermost in contact with eye; (8) infralabials 6; (9) mental in contact with first pair of chin shields, fully separating first pair of infralabials; (10) dorsal scales 23–23–19 rows; (11) ventrals 160; (12) subcaudals 73, unpaired; (13) precloacal scale entire; (14) maxillary teeth 28; and (15) all scales iridescent with metallic luster, brown dorsally, with single indigo-colored vertebral line. |
| Comment | Distribution: see Hou et al. 2021: 529 (Fig. 1) for a map. Abundance: only known from a single specimen (2023). |
| Etymology | The specific epithet “panzhihuaensis” is named after the type locality of the new species, Panzhihua, Sichuan Province, China. |
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