Atayal Blunt-headed Snake Stock Photo

Pareas atayal Subfamily blunt blunt-headed snake snake species, endemic to Taiwan blunt-headed snake. The snake by the Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University in Taiwan tour Chong-Wei Yu, Si-Min Lin, who co-discovered, and the publication of the species on March 15, 2015. Atayal blunt-headed snake body length of 60-70 cm, weighing about 20-60 grams, non-toxic; eye color yellow, head and neck longer, scales a little rough, the color is brown, with a broken horizontal stripes . The snake species like feeding lines of the right-handed snail shell and slugs, thus varying the number of teeth around the edge, were left 11, right side 20. Atayal blunt-headed snake mountain range located in north central mountains and Taichung, Miaoli and other low-elevation mountains, is the third blunt snakes endemic to Taiwan after Taiwan blunt-headed snake and Komai's blunt-headed snake, found. And because the snake's habitat range, with more than Atayal traditional areas overlap, and therefore part of the scientific name of the Atayal