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The head is long and the snout is broadly rounded. The neck is indistinct and the body is slender with cylindrical, short tail. The dorsal side is crimson brown with a black vertebral line, hence given the name. The dorsum of fore-body is brown. Laterally there are a series of black spots in a line
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It is a nocturnal and terrestrial snake that lives in damp soil, silted-up drains, beneath heaps of decaying leaves, and in similar places where there are earthworms, its primary prey.
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is a semi-fossorial snake from submontane forests. Restricted to submontane forests and plantations of the
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and the neck region has a dark brown marking. The venter is crimson colored. Adults are 50 cm (20 in) in length.
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404:IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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798:IUCN Red List vulnerable species
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443:Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
823:Taxa named by Albert Günther
445:. Accessed 10 October 2018.
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828:Reptiles described in 1858
818:Endemic fauna of Sri Lanka
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723:haplocercus-ceylonensis
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246:Haplocercus ceylonensis
238:Haplocercus ceylonensis
222:Haplocercus ceylonensis
813:Reptiles of Sri Lanka
456:"Snakes of Sri Lanka"
564:Aspidura ceylonensis
534:Aspidura ceylonensis
494:"Black-spined Snake"
438:Aspidura ceylonensis
397:Aspidura ceylonensis
302:Aspidura ceylonensis
273:, also known as the
270:Aspidura ceylonensis
254:Aspidura ceylonensis
191:Aspidura ceylonensis
25:Aspidura ceylonensis
283:slender mould snake
173:A. ceylonensis
42:Conservation status
285:, is a species of
279:black-spined snake
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344:Description
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508:10 October
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380:References
356:and 37–56
330:Namunukula
149:Colubridae
135:Suborder:
57:Vulnerable
696:Q25705261
334:Gammaduwa
318:Balangoda
167:Species:
139:Serpentes
95:Kingdom:
89:Eukaryota
803:Aspidura
749:10639991
690:Wikidata
549:Q3010292
543:Wikidata
502:Archived
326:Kotagala
314:Knuckles
287:colubrid
208:Synonyms
160:Aspidura
145:Family:
129:Squamata
119:Reptilia
109:Chordata
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643:1297011
617:1084872
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441:at the
364:Ecology
338:Kotmale
322:Ramboda
306:Gampola
291:endemic
201:, 1858)
199:Günther
155:Genus:
125:Order:
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310:Hatton
289:snake
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281:, or
757:ITIS
731:GBIF
638:NCBI
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586:GBIF
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216:List
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