Xenopholis scalaris

{{Short description|Species of snake}}

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| image = Wucherer's_ground_snake_(Xenopholis_scalaris).jpg

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author1=Doan, T.M. |author2=Ines Hladki, A. |author3=Lehr, E. |author4=Ramírez Pinilla, M. |author5=Renjifo, J. |author6=Urbina, N. |author7=Valencia, J. |author8=Gonzales, L. |author9=Catenazzi, A. |author10=Nogueira, C. de C. |date=2019 |title=Xenopholis scalaris |volume=2019 |page=e.T177550A44952190|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/177550/44952190|access-date=20 November 2021}}

| genus = Xenopholis

| species = scalaris

| authority = (Wucherer, 1861)

| synonyms = *Elapomorphus scalaris
{{small|Wucherer, 1861}}

• Xenopholis scalaris
  {{small|— Boulenger, 1896}}

| synonyms_ref =Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Xenopholis scalaris, p. 232).

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Xenopholis scalaris, Wucherer's ground snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to South America.