Achalinus spinalis

Familia: Xenodermidae
Genus: Achalinus
Species:

Achalinus spinalis Peters, 1869: 436

• Holotype: ZMB 6449, collected by Séraphin Braconnier.
• Type locality: “angeblich aus Japan” = supposedly from Japan.

• Ophielaps Bracconieri Sauvage, 1877: 108.
• Achalinus rufescens (non Boulenger) Günther, 1889: 220.
• Achalinus bracconieri Boulenger, 1893: 309.
• Achalinus spinalis weigoldi Mell 1931: 206.
• Achalinus spinalie Bourret, 1935: 101.

• Peters, W.C.H. 1869. Über neue Gattungen und neue oder weniger bekannte Arten von Amphibien (Eremias, Dicrodon, Euprepes, Lygosoma, Typhlops, Eryx, Rhynchonyx, Elapomorphus, Achalinus, Coronella, Dromicus, Xenopholis, Anoplodipsas, Spilotes, Tropidonotus). Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1869: 432–445. BHL Reference page. 

• Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History) Volume I. Containing the families Typhlopidæ, Glauconiidæ, Boidæ, Ilysiidæ, Uropeltidæ, Xenopeltidæ, and Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part. British Museum (Natural History): London. xiv + 448 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Bourret, R. 1935. Notes herpétologiques sur l'Indochine francaise. VIII. Sur les Achalinus d'Indochine. Bulletin general de l'instruction publique 14(5): 101–104. Full article Reference page. 
• Boundy, J. 2021. Snakes of the World: A Supplement. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 273 pp. ISBN 9781138618138 ebook Reference page. 
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• Günther, A. 1889. Third contribution to our knowledge of the reptiles and fishes from the upper Yangtsze-Kiang. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 6 4(24): 218–229. BHL Reference page. 
• Mell, R.E. [1929] 1931. List of Chinese Snakes. Lingnan Science Journal 8: 199–219. Reference page. 
• Sauvage, H.E. 1877. Sur quelques ophidiens d'espèces nouvelles ou peu connues de la collection du Muséum. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris (1876-1877) (Série 7) 1:107–115. BHL Reference page. 
• Wallach, V., Williams, K.L. & Boundy, J. 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 1237 pp. ISBN 9781138034006 Reference page. 
• Ziegler, T., Nguyen, T.Q., Pham, C.T., Nguyen, T.T., Pham, A.V., van Schingen, M., Nguyen, T.T. & Le, M.D. 2019. Three new species of the snake genus Achalinus from Vietnam (Squamata: Xenodermatidae). Zootaxa 4590(2): 249–269. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4590.2.3 . Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Achalinus spinalis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 18 October 2019.
• Rao, D.-q., Jiang, J., Lau, M.W.N., Kidera, N. & Ota, H. 2017. IUCN: Achalinus spinalis  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T192200A96878793. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T192200A96878793.en