Diagnosis | DESCRIPTION: Size moderate (SVL in males to 33 mm, in females to 33 mm); dorsals keeled, weakly imbricate, slightly swollen, axilla to groin 38-50; ventrals fiat, smooth, cycloid, imbricate, axilla to groin 26-37; dorsal caudal scales slightly swollen, cycloid, fiat-lying to slightly raised, smooth or weakly keeled; midventral caudal scales enlarged, smooth, cycloid, imbricate; snout moderately pointed, snout scales broad, smooth, and juxtaposed; 2 postnasals; 0-3 intemasals; supralabials to mideye 3-4 (mode 4); gular scales small, oval, juxtaposed; scales around midbody 57-73. Sexual dichromatism absent; basic dorsal pattern a series of light, longitudinal stripes on a darker ground color (gray, tan, yellowish brown); dorsal pattern variations include (1) ocellate (with cream to white ocelli arranged irregularly or linearly), (2) dark brown to black vermiculations, or (3) flecked with dark brown to black; venters range from unpigmented to heavily stippled with dark pigment, sometimes with a yellowish wash; underside of tail usually orange (from Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 466). |
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