Achalinus spinalis

{{Short description|Species of snake}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{Cite journal | title = Achalinus spinalis | journal = The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | volume = 2017 | date = 2017 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T192200A96878793.en | doi-access = free }}

| image = Achalinus_spilanus_01_juv_dorsal.jpg

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| taxon = Achalinus spinalis

| authority = Peters, 1869

| synonyms = * Ophielaps braconnieri Sauvage, 1877

• Achalinus braconnieri (Sauvage, 1877)
• Achalinus spinalis weigoldi Mell, 1931

| range_map = Achalinus_spinalis_distribution.png

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

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.{{NRDB species|genus=Achalinus|species=spinalis|accessdate=17 April 2015}}