Achalinus spinalis

Achalinus spinalis, commonly known as Peters' odd-scaled snake, the Japanese odd-scaled snake, the Japanese ground snake or the grey burrowing snake,^[1] is a species of snake in the family Xenodermidae.

Achalinus spinalis
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Xenodermidae
Genus:	Achalinus
Species:	A. spinalis
Binomial name
Achalinus spinalis Peters, 1869
Synonyms
Ophielaps braconnieri Sauvage, 1877 Achalinus braconnieri (Sauvage, 1877) Achalinus spinalis weigoldi Mell, 1931

The species is found in northern Vietnam, Japan (Kyūshū, Honshū, the Ryukyu Islands, Koshiki, Tokuno-shima: Kametoku and Inokawa), and central China (east to Fujian, west to Yunnan and Sichuan, and north to Gansu and Shaanxi, and in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Hubei) at an elevation of 1,230 m.^[1][2]