. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. LlOPHOLIDOPHIS (COLUBRIDAE) FROM MADAGASCAR • Codle 377. Figure 4. Liopholldophis rhadinaea, MCZ 180394 (male), in life. uals had unilateral reduction of 4 + 5 on one side and 3 + 4 on the other). Ventrals 170-179 in males, 150-160 in females. Anal plate divided. Subcaudals 126-137 in males, 69-88 in females (88 subcaudals in MNHN 1988-333; maximum of 77 in the RNP series). Rostral slightly visible from above, about 2 times wider than high. Paired internas- als, each slightly wider than long, about 80% as long as pref
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. LlOPHOLIDOPHIS (COLUBRIDAE) FROM MADAGASCAR • Codle 377. Figure 4. Liopholldophis rhadinaea, MCZ 180394 (male), in life. uals had unilateral reduction of 4 + 5 on one side and 3 + 4 on the other). Ventrals 170-179 in males, 150-160 in females. Anal plate divided. Subcaudals 126-137 in males, 69-88 in females (88 subcaudals in MNHN 1988-333; maximum of 77 in the RNP series). Rostral slightly visible from above, about 2 times wider than high. Paired internas- als, each slightly wider than long, about 80% as long as prefrontals. Paired pre- frontals, each wider than long, in contact with each other and with frontal, supra- ocular, preocular, loreal, postnasal, and in- ternasal. Frontal roughly pentagonal (sometimes with a slightly angulate ante- rior border, producing a more hexagonal shape), times longer than its great- est width (at frontal/prefrontal suture), times longer than distance from its anterior edge to tip of snout. Parietals about times longer than broad; interparietal suture about 70% length of frontal plate. Nasal divided ventral to nostril, in contact with rostral, internasal, prefrontal, loreal, and first 2 supralabials. Loreal rectangular to pentagonal, usually higher than wide, separated from eye by single preocular (unilateral transverse division of preocular in 3 specimens). Two postoculars; tempor- als 1+2. Supralabials usually 8 with 4-5 touching eye (11 specimens), or 7 with 3- 4 touching eye (5 specimens) (1 specimen each with 7-8 and 7-6). Infralabials 8-8 (6 specimens), 8-9 (2 specimens), or 9-9 (10 specimens), the first pair in contact behind the mental, 1-4 touching an an- terior genial, 4-5 touching a posterior gen- ial (1 specimen with 1-3 and 3-4, respec- tively). Anterior genials approximately equal to, or slightly shorter than, posterior genials. Scattered minute pits or tubercles visible on head plates of some specimens under high magnif
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