. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Figure 32. Hemipenis of Liopholidophis grandidieri Mocquard. Fully everted organ of MCZ 180297 (from Mt. Maharira in the RNP), shown in sulcate (left) and asulcate (right) views. Scale bar = 1 mm. neatus group (cf. rhadinaea and dolico- cercus) makes the homology and origin of these structures difficult to discern with present knowledge. Liopholidophis pinguis (Everted Right Organ of MCZ 11701, Prepared from the Inverted Organ by the Method of Pe- santes [1994]). Before the organ was re- moved, it extended to approxim
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Figure 32. Hemipenis of Liopholidophis grandidieri Mocquard. Fully everted organ of MCZ 180297 (from Mt. Maharira in the RNP), shown in sulcate (left) and asulcate (right) views. Scale bar = 1 mm. neatus group (cf. rhadinaea and dolico- cercus) makes the homology and origin of these structures difficult to discern with present knowledge. Liopholidophis pinguis (Everted Right Organ of MCZ 11701, Prepared from the Inverted Organ by the Method of Pe- santes [1994]). Before the organ was re- moved, it extended to approximately the middle of subcaudal 9 and bifurcated at the level of the suture between subcaudals 5 and 6. The major retractor muscle di- vides at about the base of subcaudal 11. The ventral lobe of the left hemipenis was examined in situ by making a midventral incision. The organ is deeply bilobed, noncapi- tate, acalyculate (entirely spinose), with a deeply bifurcate centrolineal sulcus sper- maticus. Total length of the everted and injected organ approximately 15 mm, bi- lobed for the distal mm. Sulcus sper- maticus forked distally for 10 mm. No bas- al pockets or lobes. Stalk and lobes narrow, with no abrupt expansions. No especially enlarged spines anywhere on organ. The sulcus spermaticus is a broad, deep groove, bordered by thickened, overhang- ing lips; bifurcate for about % its length, with the branches terminating at the tips of the hemipenial lobes on the same side of the organ (centrolineal). There seems to be slight displacement of the branches to- ward the outer sides of the lobes, but this may be an artifact of the preparation method; the sulcus in the opened lobe of the inverted organ was on the lateral side of the lobe, as typical for centrolineal Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the origi
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