COL·V9GT3speciesThe Nature Library · Catalogue of Life, 2026

Figure 3 The holotype of Plagiopholis maculosa sp. nov. Qi, Song, Yang, 2025 (CC BY 4.0) · Plazi / Biodiversity Literature Repository. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.

Figure 3 The holotype of Plagiopholis maculosa sp. nov. Qi, Song, Yang, 2025 (CC BY 4.0) · Plazi / Biodiversity Literature Repository. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.

Nanling mountain snake

Plagiopholis maculosa Qi, Song, Yang, Xu, Fang, SU & Wang, 2025

Also called南岭颈斑蛇” (nánlǐng jǐngbānshé) (zho)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from: China (Guangdong)

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Plagiopholis maculosa in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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References

Qi S, Song H-M, Yang H-C, Xu Y-H, Fang R-J, Su J-R, Liu Z-F, Gong Y-N, Li F-H, Lyu C-H, Wang B-Y, & Wang Y-Y. (2025). A new species of Plagiopholis Boulenger, 1893 (Serpentes, Pseudoxenodontidae) from Guangdong, China. Zoosystematics and Evolution 101(4): 2171-2180.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.