Cylindrophis lineatus, or Blanford's pipe snake, is a species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

 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

A blackish-brown stripe, three scales wide, runs down the middle of the back from head to tail, and is bordered on each side by a narrower white stripe; below this again is a second, broad, blackish stripe of irregular width, with the lower border wavy. This stripe is separated by a narrow, wavy, white stripe from the dark crossbands of the belly, which are narrower than the alternating white crossbands. As in other species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

 of this genus

Genus

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, the crossbands on opposite sides of the belly do not precisely coincide. Head and tail yellowish white, with a few blackish spots. The type specimen is 25 inches (63.5 cm) in total length, of which the tail is only ¾ inch (2 cm).

Dorsal scales in 21 rows. Ventrals 215, nearly twice as large as contiguous dorsal scales; anal divided; subcaudals 9.