Species

Spilotes megalolepis

Spilotes megalolepis · described by (GÜNTHER 1865)

Spilotes pullatus, a close relative of Spilotes megalolepis — Pictured: Spilotes pullatus, a close relative from the same genus. This species is still waiting for its first free photo.
Photo: Salomão Janderson Ferreira Bispo, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The facts

Scientific name: Spilotes megalolepis
First described: (GÜNTHER 1865)
Class: Reptiles (Reptilia)
Order: Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)
Group: Snakes (Serpentes)
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Spilotes

Taxonomic data: Uetz, P. et al. (eds.), The Reptile Database, under CC-BY 4.0.

Where it sits on the tree