. Current herpetology. Reptiles; Herpetology. 32 Current Herpetol. 22(1) 2003. Fig. 3. Dorsal (A), ventral (B) and lateral (C) views of head, and ventral view of cloacal region (D) in the holotype of Tropidophorus baconi sp. nov. ( 3789). Bar equals 5 mm. Other congeneric species except T. grayi by having a divided frontonasal, parietals sepa- rated from each other, lateral body scales directed obliquely upw^ard (Fig. 4), three preanals, postanal pores in adult males, and single keels on dorsal body and tail scales with marked development of the latter to make the tail surface more or
. Current herpetology. Reptiles; Herpetology. 32 Current Herpetol. 22(1) 2003. Fig. 3. Dorsal (A), ventral (B) and lateral (C) views of head, and ventral view of cloacal region (D) in the holotype of Tropidophorus baconi sp. nov. ( 3789). Bar equals 5 mm. Other congeneric species except T. grayi by having a divided frontonasal, parietals sepa- rated from each other, lateral body scales directed obliquely upw^ard (Fig. 4), three preanals, postanal pores in adult males, and single keels on dorsal body and tail scales with marked development of the latter to make the tail surface more or less spinose. Besides the preanal scale number, most other scale counts also largely or completely overlap between the two species (Table 1). Nevertheless, T. baconi is distinct from T. grayi in having relatively longer toes and more subdigitals thereon (22- 27 vs. 17-20) with a larger number of proximal ones medially divided (8-12 vs 2-3: Fig. 5). Tropidophorus grayi has strongly striated scales on dorsal and lateral surfaces of head, and distinctly keeled spinose scales also on dorsal surfaces of body, whereas in T. baconi, striations in head scales are much weaker and dorsal body scales are not spinose (Fig. 4). Postanal pores in males form a single row in T. baconi, but three rows in T. grayi (Table 1). Description of holotype A subadult male (Fig. 2), with undeveloped testes. Temporal region on left side of head partially injured. Head scales rugose, weakly striated; snout rounded, rostral partially visible from above, overlapping frontonasals, nasals, and first supralabials; no supranasals; frontonasal divided, overlapped by rostral, nasals, and upper anterior loreals, overlapping prefron- tals; left frontonasal widely overlapped by right one; prefrontal overlapped by frontona- sal and loreals, overlapping frontal, first supraocular and first superciliary; left prefron- tal widely overlapped by right one; frontal large, narrowing posteriorly, overlapped by prefrontals, ov
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