Jin-Long Ren, Chaochao Yan, Zhong-Liang Peng, Jia-Tang Li. 2022: Sichuan hot-spring snakes imperiled: reason, situation, and protection. Zoological Research, 43(1): 95-97. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2021.321
Citation: Jin-Long Ren, Chaochao Yan, Zhong-Liang Peng, Jia-Tang Li. 2022: Sichuan hot-spring snakes imperiled: reason, situation, and protection. Zoological Research, 43(1): 95-97. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2021.321

Sichuan hot-spring snakes imperiled: reason, situation, and protection

  • The Sichuan hot-spring snake (Thermophis zhaoermii) is a rare and endemic species found at high elevations in the Hengduan Mountains of China. Recent species-specific investigations showed that the Sichuan hot-spring snake is still restricted to geothermal zones at elevations higher than 3 000 m a.s.l. The species also remains at risk of extinction, with the effective population size showing continual decline over the past one million years based on coalescent inference from genome-level single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data. We propose several approaches for protecting Sichuan hot-spring snake populations and their habitat.
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