The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has named a new species of highly venomous snake, Suzhen, and what does this naming mean?

Recently, a CAS research team discovered a new species of local snake while conducting a field study of reptiles in Yingjiang County, Yunnan Province. The snake is small but highly venomous, and its shape, color, pattern and body length and size are quite close to those of the common silver-ringed snake, but if you look closely at its various features, it has a separate evolution and composition, so it should be regarded as an independent newly discovered species. Later, this snake was named by experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences as ? Suzhen ring snake? The meaning of this is that this snake has many white horizontal stripes on its body, which can be called a white snake, which is similar to the heroine Bai Suzhen in China's ancient love story "The Legend of the White Snake", and it was named as "Suzhen Ring Snake". Suzhen Ring Snake? is not only very image, but also conducive to the dissemination and promotion of our traditional culture.

New highly venomous snake species found in Yunnan

The new snake species discovered by experts in China is now known to be distributed in Yingjiang County, Yunnan, and has not yet been found in other areas, while it has been found in Kachin State in northern Myanmar before. This snake is similar to the common silver-ringed snake in both appearance and toxicity. The venom of the Vegetarian Chaste Ringed Snake is also a neurotoxin, and in cases of snakebite where it has bitten, the bitten person has shown symptoms of respiratory distress, which is very dangerous. In order to let the community know about this dangerous new highly venomous snake species, the team of experts publicized the existence of this snake early on, and its article was published in the March 2021 issue of Zookeys, an international professional journal, which is known to scholars around the world.

New species of ringed snakes

Silver ringed snakes are more common in our country, but also the most toxic terrestrial venomous snakes in our unit, the intensity of its toxicity is comparable to that of cobras, and the bite of all can quickly cause life-threatening danger to people. Vegetative ring snake then belongs to a newly discovered species of China's ring snakes, its toxicity is also very strong, but there is a little difference with the silver ring snake. As early as 2015, a reptile enthusiast was bitten by a vegetarian ring snake leading to unconsciousness during a field investigation in Yingjiang County, which was thought to be a silver ring snake, but its clinical manifestations were localized pain and darkening of the skin around the wound, which were different from the symptoms of being bitten by a silver ring snake. Later resuscitated more than 70 hours to get out of danger, at this time people realized that this snake should not be a silver ring snake, but another unknown new snake species.

Different from the silver ringed snake

The research team later specialized in a careful study of this new species of snake when they encountered it, and a comparison with the silver ringed snake revealed that the two were very close in external morphology. However, the Vegetarian Ringed Snake has a differentiated and independent evolutionary process compared to other snakes in terms of its external morphology and structural features of its teeth, and should be considered as a new and separate species.