Cylindrophis aruensis, or the Aru cylinder snake, is a species of snake

Snake

Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...

 in the Cylindrophiidae family.

Description

The Aru cylinder snake is reddish brown, with white transverse spots forming two alternating series on the back and crossbars on the belly, some of which are complete, others interrupted and the two halves alternating; a pair of large white blotches on the nape of the neck; lower surface of tail white.

No enlarged ventrals. Scales in 24 rows. Subcaudals 6.