Title: Breviora
Identifier: breviora231264harv (find matches)
Year: 1965-1967 (1960s)
Authors: Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology
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Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. , Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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BREVIORA No. 288 dorsum generally dark, unpatterued; venter usually dark, similar in intensity to the dorsum, paler anteriorly in area of chin and throat with a suffusion of darker pigmentation (Figs. 2 and 4) ; juveniles often exhibiting a dorsal pattern of longitudinal stripes; head with a dark cap generally darker than the sur- rounding ground color, and venter darker than ground color of dorsum ; supralabials 7/7 ; infralabials 9/9 ; prefrontals 2 ; loreals 1/1; preoculars 1/1; postoculars 2/2; temporals 1 + 2/1 + 2; dorsals smooth, dorsal row formula 19-19-17. An account of the hemipenial configuration based upon the examination of the right extruded organ of ASPS 15172 is as follows: a single relatively slender, clavate organ extending to the level of the eighth subcaudal; sulcus spermaticus bifurcating on the apical surface with each branch terminating on opposite sides of a fleshy rowel (Fig. 3, left) ; organ virtually nude from the base to the level of the seventh subcaudal, thence be- coming spinose to the apex, the spines generally small though somewhat larger on the non-sulcate surface. Variation: Anomalies in numbers of certain head scales were occasionally encountered; scales involved were: supralabials,
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