| Diagnosis | Original description: “Upper parts and throat covered with uniform very small granules, smallest on the back of the head and on the throat, largest on the snout*; lower parts and tail covered with large, imbricate, cycloid, smooth scales (18 across the middle of the body). Rostral and symphysial shields large, the former with short median cleft above, the latter with two clefts behind four upper and three lower labials, first very large. Upper eyelid and limbs as in L. festœ, Peracca. Dark brown above, paler brown beneath, blackish on the upper part of the sides a whitish streak on each side, from the eye to the base of the tail, where it unites with its fellow upper surface of head with dark symmetrical markings.” (Boulenger 1908)
Measurements: Boulenger 1908 |
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