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Achalinus dehuaensis LI, WU, XU, ZHU, REN, GUO & DONG, 2021

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Higher TaxaXenodermidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Dehua odd–scaled snake
Chinese: “De Hua Ji She” (德化脊蛇) 
SynonymAchalinus dehuaensis LI, WU, XU, ZHU, REN, GUO & DONG 2021 
DistributionChina (Fujian)

Type locality: Nancheng Town, Dehua County, Fujian Province, China, at an elevation of 455 m above sea level  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. YBU 13013, a juvenile male, collected in July 2013 (Fig. 1).
Paratypes (n = 5). Three males, LAB 2020039 (Fig. 5) (LAB: field catalogue number of CIB), CIB 8100, CIB 8101; two females, CIB 8102 and CIB 8099. The specimens were collected from Youxi County (LAB2020039) and Dehua County (the others), Fujian Province, China. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A species of Achalinus having a combination of the following characters: (1) dorsal scales 23 rows throughout, strongly keeled, the most outer rows on both sides also keeled and slightly enlarged; (2) tail relatively longer, TaL/TL ratio 0.26–0.29 in males, 0.21–0.22 in females; (3) maxillary teeth 30–33; (4) length of suture between internasals significantly longer than that between prefrontals; (5) nasal divided into two sections by nasal cleft; (6) a single loreal; (7) SPO 1, seldom 2; (8) SPL 6, the fourth and fifth contacting with eye; (9) IFL5, rarely 6, the first three touching the first pair of chin shields; (10) TMP 7–9, arranged in three rows; (11) VS 142–149 in males, VS 152–154 in females; (12) SC 74–81 in males, SC 63–65 in females, arranged in a single row; (13) cloacal entire; (14) greyish brown above, pale yellow beneath; (15) dorsum with an indistinct longitudinal vertebral stripe (Li et al. 2021).


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Comment 
EtymologyThe species name refers to the type locality of this species, Nancheng Town, Dehua County, Fujian Province, China (Fig. 1). 
References
  • Darko, Y.A.; Voss, O. & Uetz, P. 2022. A dictionary of abbreviations used in reptile descriptions. Zootaxa 5219 (5): 421–432 - get paper here
  • 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 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Wang, C. G. M. Z. X., Jia, S. Y. K. T. L., & Hu, C. Z. J. 2022. An updated species checklist of amphibians and reptiles in Fujian Province, China. Biodiversity Science, 22090 - get paper here
 
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