Overview
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Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Amami Takachiho Snake, Amami Odd-Scaled Snake
Description
Family Colubridae
The family Colubridae, which includes the kingsnakes (Lampropeltis spp. ), is the largest, most widespread, and diverse family of snakes , with few physical characteristics universal among all species. The family contains 70 percent of the known species of snakes, with more than 1700 species worldwide (Pough et al. 1998). Although some colubrids are dangerously venomous , most are harmless to humans. [1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Reptilia
()
- Reptiles
- Subclass:
Diapsida
()
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
()
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
()
-
- Order:
Squamata
()
- Suborder:
Serpentes
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Superfamily:
Colubroidea
()
- Family:
Colubridae
()
- Colubrids
- Subfamily:
Xenodermatinae
()
- Genus:
Achalinus
()
- Peters, 1869
- Specific name:
werneri
- Van Denburgh, 1912
- Scientific name: - Achalinus werneri Van Denburgh, 1912
- Specific name:
werneri
- Van Denburgh, 1912
- Genus:
Achalinus
(
- Subfamily:
Xenodermatinae
(
- Family:
Colubridae
(
- Superfamily:
Colubroidea
(
- Suborder:
Serpentes
(
- Order:
Squamata
(
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
(
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
(
- Subclass:
Diapsida
(
- Class:
Reptilia
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Achalinus loochoensis Thompson • Achalinus Spinalis Werneri
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Holotype: CAS 22064 [Achalinus werneri] Synonymy
fide A.
Hagedorn and R. Goris (pers. comm.
) Probably named after Franz Werner
(1867-1939), Austrian zoologist
. This species is classified as near
threatened in Japan (Ota 2000).
Similar Species
Members of the genus Achalinus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 10 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. ater (Bourret's Odd-Scaled Snake) · A. formosanus (Formosa Odd-Scaled Snake) · A. formosanus formosanus (Formosa Odd-Scaled Snake) · A. hainanus (Hainan Odd-Scaled Snake) · A. jinggangensis (Zong's Odd-Scaled Snake) · A. meiguensis (Szechwan Odd-Scaled Snake) · A. niger (Black Odd-Scaled Snake) · A. rufescens (Boulenger's Odd-Scaled Snake) · A. spinalis (Peters' Odd-Scaled Snake) · A. werneri (Amami Takachiho Snake)
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Further Reading
- 1994 IUCN red list of threatened animals Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 1993 url p. 83.
- Proceedings - California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 188, p. 254.
- Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 188, p. 254, p. 545.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed February 1, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Achalinus werneri. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 29January2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Herpetology Collection - Reptile Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2663242
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-98
- IUCN ID: 188363
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 986
Footnotes
- Painter, Charles W., Chuck L. Hayes, and James N. Stuart "Recovery and Conservation of the Gray-Banded Kingsnake. New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. May 1, 2002. [back]
