The natural history of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals . LeptophisWag.(b). LikeDryinus^but the snoutis rounded and ob-tuse^ with the ventralplates angularly cari-nated on the ahffitvila. Lac, 2. Amblicephalus Kuhl. Head very high, truncate, de-pressed above, plated before ; body compressed, withlonger vertebral scales; lateral scales carinata Boie. DiPSAs Laur. Head short and broad; crown plated ;body long, compressed; vertebral scales square ; la-teral scales linear; sub-caudal plates double,bucephalus. Seba, i. pi. 43. Cerehus Cuv. (
The natural history of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals . LeptophisWag.(b). LikeDryinus^but the snoutis rounded and ob-tuse^ with the ventralplates angularly cari-nated on the ahffitvila. Lac, 2. Amblicephalus Kuhl. Head very high, truncate, de-pressed above, plated before ; body compressed, withlonger vertebral scales; lateral scales carinata Boie. DiPSAs Laur. Head short and broad; crown plated ;body long, compressed; vertebral scales square ; la-teral scales linear; sub-caudal plates double,bucephalus. Seba, i. pi. 43. Cerehus Cuv. () ^^^ ^^^ Head almost entirelycovered with smallscales, but there areplates between andin front of the eyes. C. rhynchops. Russ. Serp. pi. 17. Boa Linn. Two curved spurs orhooks on the sides of the vent;body thick in the middle, theextremities narrowed; tail pre-hensile ; sub-caudal plates sim-ple : Tropical America. Boa Linn. Muzzle covered withscales ; labial scales B. constrictor, Seba, i. pi. (fg. 122.)
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