黄脊游蛇在关于新疆爬行动物的文献中一直有记载(赵尔宓,1979,1998i袁国映,1991;时磊等,2002;王国英等,2005),但均未采到标本,其确切的分布难以肯定。我们在阿尔泰山采到标本,是在新疆的首次确切记录。初步研究揭示该种与同属的花脊游蛇在新疆的分布范围不重叠,可能存在地理替代现象。
There have been records (ZHAO Er-mi,1979,1998; YUAN G of Coluber spinalis in bibliography in Xinjiang herpetology fauna uo-ying,1991;SHI Lei,2002; WANG Guo-ying,et,al,2005), but no specimens have been collected. So nothing was known about distribution and condition of this species. It was found in Altay mountain region in Fuhai county, the northern Xinjiang,this was the first reliable record of this species in Xinjiang,