. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History) ... Serpents. 154 COLtJBRID^. pupil. Body stout, subcylindrical; scales keeled, with apical pits, in 23 to 27 rows; venti'als rounded. Tail short; subcaudals in two rows. North America. Fiff. 14. Q?SM:. Maxillary and mandible of Hctcrodon platyrhintis. 1. platyrhinus, p. 154. Synopsis of the Species. Maxillary teeth 9 to 11+2; praefrontals usually in contact with each other; frontal longer than broad; rostral narrower than the distance between the eyes Maxillary teeth 8 or 9 -f 2; internasals and proefrontals separated by small
. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History) ... Serpents. 154 COLtJBRID^. pupil. Body stout, subcylindrical; scales keeled, with apical pits, in 23 to 27 rows; venti'als rounded. Tail short; subcaudals in two rows. North America. Fiff. 14. Q?SM:. Maxillary and mandible of Hctcrodon platyrhintis. 1. platyrhinus, p. 154. Synopsis of the Species. Maxillary teeth 9 to 11+2; praefrontals usually in contact with each other; frontal longer than broad; rostral narrower than the distance between the eyes Maxillary teeth 8 or 9 -f 2; internasals and proefrontals separated by small irre- gular shields; frontal as broad as long or slightly longer; rostral narrower than the distance between the eyes ".. . 2. simus, p. 156 Maxillary teeth 6 to 8 + 2; internasals and pra3frontals separated by small irre- gular shields ; frontal as broad as long or broader; rostral as broad as the distance between the eyes 3. nasicus, p 156. 1. Heterodon platyrhinujL/-. - , V Cateshy, Nat. Hist. Carol, ii. pis. xliv., Ivi. (1743). , ? Coluber leberis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 375 (1766). Iletprodon platyrhinus, Lafr. Rept. iv. p. 32 (1800) ; Storer, Rep. Fish. ^ Rept. Mass. p. 231 (1839) ; Holbr. N. Am. p. 67, pi. xvii. (1842) ; Bekay, Faun. N. York, Rept. p. 51, pi. xiii. fig. 28 (1842) ; Baird S,- Gir. Cat. N. Am. Rept. p. 51 (1853); Giinth. Cat. p. 82 (1858) ; Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 220, and Icon. Gen. 48, pi. iii. fig. 2 (1876); Garm. N. Am. Rept. p. 75, pi. vi. fig. 5 (1883); Cope, Proc. Nat. Mus. xiv. 1892, p. 643 ; H. Garm. Bull, lllin. Lab. iii. 1892, p. 302; Hay, Batr. l<f Rept. Indiana, p. 102 (1893). Coluber cacodiEraon, Sha^v, Zool. iii. p. 377, pi. cii. (1802). Scytale niger, Baud. Rept. v. p. 342 (1803). Coluber heterodon, part., Daud. Rept. vii. p. 153 (1803); Say, Amer. Jvurn. i. 1818, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration
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