Achalinus meiguensis HU & ZHAO, 1966

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Higher Taxa	Xenodermidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Szechwan Odd-scaled Snake Chinese: 美姑脊蛇
Synonym	Achalinus meiguensis HU & ZHAO 1966 Achalinus meiguensis — INGER et al. 1990: 18 Achalinus meiguensis — GUO et al. 1999 Achalinus meiguensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 5
Distribution	China (W Sichuan, Yunnan), elevation 1200-1400 m. Type locality: Liang He Kou, Meigu Co., Sichuan Prov.; 2520 m elevation.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: CIB 639101, Female; Coll. X. Y Tang; 5. 22, 1963.
Diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS: “Differing distinctly from all the known species of this genus by having long praefrontals but no internasals; two nasals meeting behind the rostral; the first pair of lower labials not meeting behind the mental; a very small postocular present.” (Hu & Zhao 1966, with details in Chinese) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 614 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Not listed, at least as such, in the Zoological Record of 1966.
Etymology	named after the type locality.
References	Gao Z 1991. Discovery of Achalinus meiguensis in Anxian County, Sichuan [in Chinese]. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 10 (1): 33. - get paper here Guo, P., F. J. Zhang, and Y. Y. Chen. 1999. Catalogue of type specimens of reptiles in the Herpetological Collections of Chengdu Institute of Biology,the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Asiatic Herpetological Research 8: 43~47 - get paper here Hu, Shu-QIN & Zhao, Ermi 1966. Three new species of reptiles from Szechwan (in Chinese with English abstract). Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, Peking, 3 (2): 158-164 Inger R F; Zhao E; Bradley Shaffer H; Guanfu Wu 1990. Report on a collection of amphibians and reptiles from Sichuan, China. Fieldiana: Zoology (No. 58) : i-iii, 1-24 - get paper here Kou Z., Wang X. 2003. A new record of snake, Achalinus meiguensis in Yunnan Province. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 22(4): 263- 267 LI, K., WU, Y. Y., XU, R. Y., ZHU, F., REN, J. L., GUO, P., & DONG, B. J. 2021. A new species of the Achalinus rufescens complex (Xenodermidae: Achalinus) from Fujian Province, China. Zootaxa 5026 (2): 239-254 - get paper here Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp. Wang K, Lyu ZT, Wang J, Qi S, Che J 2022. Updated Checklist and Zoogeographic Division of the Reptilian Fauna of Yunnan Province, China. Biodiversity Science 30 (4): 21326, 1–31 - get paper here Wang, Kai; Jinlong Ren, Hongman Chen, Zhitong Lyu, Xianguang Guo Ke Jiang, Jinmin Chen, Jiatang Li, Peng Guo, Yingyong Wang, Jing Che 2020. The updated checklists of amphibians and reptiles of China. Biodiversity Science 28 (2): 189-218 - get paper here Zhao, E.M. 2006. The snakes of China [in Chinese]. Hefei, China, Anhui Sience & Technology Publ. House, Vol. I, 372 pp., Vol. II (color plates), 280 pp. ZIEGLER, THOMAS; TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN, CUONG THE PHAM, TAO THIEN NGUYEN, ANH VAN PHAM, MONA VAN SCHINGEN, THAM THI NGUYEN, MINH DUC LE 2019. Three new species of the snake genus Achalinus from Vietnam (Squamata: Xenodermatidae). Zootaxa 4590 (2): 249-269 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:224385CD-38B4-483A-9291… https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/275535748004364/ Google images

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