. Bonner zoologische Monographien. Zoology. 43 Ground colour greyish to brownish with a darker dorsal pattern. Males tend to be lighter in ground colour. Dorsal pattern dark brownish occasionally surrounded by whitish areas and consisting of 47 to 64 {x = 52) irregular transverse bars or blotches. Neck pattern consisting of two obhque spots only rarely united with first dorsal spot (14 Belly pattern unicoloured greyish, often with fine punctation. A dark band from posterior border of eye to the corner of mouth. A series of smaller dark spots laterally on each side of body. Crown of head covere
. Bonner zoologische Monographien. Zoology. 43 Ground colour greyish to brownish with a darker dorsal pattern. Males tend to be lighter in ground colour. Dorsal pattern dark brownish occasionally surrounded by whitish areas and consisting of 47 to 64 {x = 52) irregular transverse bars or blotches. Neck pattern consisting of two obhque spots only rarely united with first dorsal spot (14 Belly pattern unicoloured greyish, often with fine punctation. A dark band from posterior border of eye to the corner of mouth. A series of smaller dark spots laterally on each side of body. Crown of head covered by two large somewhat convex supraoculars which are in broad contact with eye and separated from each other by a row of 6 to 9 (x = ) interocular scales at shortest distance. Total number of intersupraoculars 31—42 (x = ). One to one and a half (x = ) canthal scales on each side separating supraoculars and supranasals. Two or three (x = ) apicals bordering rostral. Total number of intercanthals 9—19 {x = ) and with a total number of scales on top of head (intercanthals + intersupraoculars) ranging from 42 to 61 {x = ). Eye separated from supralabials by two subocular rows (in one case three) and surrounded by a first inner and a second outer circumocular ring containing 11—15 {x = ) and 13—16 (x = ) scales respectively. Nostril in the middle of a big nasal shield, which is partly fused with the prenasal. Upper preocular somewhat rectangular and rarely penetrating somewhat in between canthal and loreal towards nasal. However, always separated from nasal by at least the distance of half the loreal. Nine supralabials on each side in 68 °7o of the specimens while % have ten on one side of head. No specimen had. Fig. 14: A male Vipera bornmuelleri from Mt. Hermon (Israel administered area) (ZIG).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and app
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