The Jade Spotted Brocade Snake is non-venomous.

The Jade Spotted Snake belongs to the snake family and is also known as the Beauty Snake. It lives in hilly and mountainous woodlands, preys on lizards and rodents, and is oviparous and non-venomous. It is widely distributed in North China, East China and South China. It is a rare species in Beijing, found only in a small number in Miyun and Huairou Yunmeng Mountain areas, and in some areas of Haidian Xiangshan Cherry Gully. It is mostly found in the forests of mountainous areas and often inhabits the side of water ditches or grasses near mountainous settlements. The upper altitude limit for its survival is 3000 meters.

This species has been listed in the List of Beneficial or Economically and Scientifically Important Terrestrial Wildlife under State Protection issued on August 1, 2000 by the State Forestry Administration of China. The Jade Spotted Brocade Snake is listed as a Provincial Key Protected Animal by Hebei and a General Protected Animal by Beijing.

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The Cross-Spotted Snake

The Cross-Spotted Jade Snake was first discovered in Ya'an, Sichuan Province, in 1929 by the American biologist, Stange, who named it "Cross-Spotted Snake". In the 50 years since then, it has been difficult for humans to find traces of it. Until the 1980s, Chinese scientists in Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, Luding County, successive specimens of it, only to dispel the doubts of the academic community on its extinction.

Since then, Chinese and American scientists have proved through molecular phylogenetic studies that the species is most closely related to the jade-spotted brocade snake and the Japanese earth brocade snake, negating the previous academic speculation that "it is an individual variant of the jade-spotted brocade snake". Scientists have separated it from the brocade snake as a new genus.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Jade-spotted brocade snake

People's Daily Online - China scientists successfully breed offspring of endangered species of cross-spotted brocade snake