. Ecuadorian lizards of the genus Stenocercus (Squamata: Tropiduridae) . Fig. 7. Dorsal and lateral views of the heads of two species of Stenocercus. A and C S. chota, holotype, QCAZ 3768, male. B and D S. festae, QCAZ 1347, male. Scale bars = 5 mm. region of females, and large blue longitudinal mark on each side of dark midventral stripe in males. Description of holotype.—Head (Fig. 7A and C) wider than high (HH/HW = ); occipitals, parietals, interpa- rietal, and postparietals small, keeled, and slightly imbri- cate; 4 postrostrals, 2 wider than long and 2 as wide as long; 4 internasals;
. Ecuadorian lizards of the genus Stenocercus (Squamata: Tropiduridae) . Fig. 7. Dorsal and lateral views of the heads of two species of Stenocercus. A and C S. chota, holotype, QCAZ 3768, male. B and D S. festae, QCAZ 1347, male. Scale bars = 5 mm. region of females, and large blue longitudinal mark on each side of dark midventral stripe in males. Description of holotype.—Head (Fig. 7A and C) wider than high (HH/HW = ); occipitals, parietals, interpa- rietal, and postparietals small, keeled, and slightly imbri- cate; 4 postrostrals, 2 wider than long and 2 as wide as long; 4 internasals; 2 canthals on each side, the most ante- rior separated from the nasal by 2 tiny scales; supraoculars keeled or wrinkled and juxtaposed; row of enlarged supraocular scales absent; lateral temporals slightly keeled and imbricate; parietal eye visible; gulars large, smooth, and imbricate each with an apical pit; mental in contact with the first infralabials, first postmentals and with a tiny scale between postmentals. Body wider than high (BH/BW = ); dorsal and lat- eral scales of body and neck keeled, imbricate, and slightly mucronate; vertebrals large, forming a prominent serrate vertebral crest; ventrals smooth and imbricate; preauricu- lar fringe well developed; neck folds absent; limb scales keeled and imbricate except the ventral scales of hind limbs that are smooth and imbricate; dorsal scales of hind limbs and plantar scales mucronate; 20 lamellae on Finger IV; 28 lamellae on Toe IV; tail laterally compressed; caudals keeled and imbricate except those of the anterior ventral region that are smooth and imbricate; tail length 62% of total length; posthumeral and postfemoral pockets Type 2. In life, the coloration of the holotype was: dorsum gray- ish brown with 12 transverse brown stripes longitudinally disposed over vertebral line, from neck to anterior part of tail; white and dark brown spots on dorsum of body and flanks; limbs with more white spots than dorsum and w
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