. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Figure 30. Hemipenis of Liopholidophis rhadinaea, new species. Fully everted organ of MCZ 180394 (from Talatakely in the RNP), shown in sulcate (left) and asulcate (right) views. Scale bar = 1 mm. a species variously subsumed under later- alis or stumpffi for more than a century (Gunther, 1890; Boulenger, 1893; Moc- quard, 1909; Parker, 1925; Guibe, 1954, 1958). Hence, thieli Domergue is a junior synonym of infrasignatus Gunther. HEMIPENIAL MORPHOLOGY IN LIOPHOLIDOPHIS Everted hemipenes of all currently rec- ognized n
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Figure 30. Hemipenis of Liopholidophis rhadinaea, new species. Fully everted organ of MCZ 180394 (from Talatakely in the RNP), shown in sulcate (left) and asulcate (right) views. Scale bar = 1 mm. a species variously subsumed under later- alis or stumpffi for more than a century (Gunther, 1890; Boulenger, 1893; Moc- quard, 1909; Parker, 1925; Guibe, 1954, 1958). Hence, thieli Domergue is a junior synonym of infrasignatus Gunther. HEMIPENIAL MORPHOLOGY IN LIOPHOLIDOPHIS Everted hemipenes of all currently rec- ognized nominal species of Liopholido- phis are described here. Brief comparisons to the corresponding inverted organs are given for some taxa as necessary. The sexlineatus Group Liopholidophis rhadinaea (Fully Everted Left Organ of MCZ 180394; Fig. 30). The organ is deeply bilobed, non- capitate, acalyculate (entirely spinose), with small cylindrical awns at the tips of the lobes (described later) and a deeply bifurcate centrolineal sulcus spermaticus. Total length of the everted organ approx- imately mm, bilobed for the distal mm. Sulcus spermaticus forked distally for 3 mm. No basal pockets or lobes. The sulcus spermaticus is a deep groove, bifurcate for about V2 its length, with the branches terminating on the same side of the organ at the base of the apical awns (centrolineal in orientation). The tip of each branch broadens slightly, resulting in fun- nel-shaped distal end of each branch. The stalk of the organ below the lobes is covered on all sides with small hooked spines. The stalk abruptly broadens slight- ly just below the sulcus division, the spines also coincidently increasing in size (spines here about twice as large as those on the base of the stalk). The lobes, including the crotch and inner and outer surfaces, are covered with hooked spines up to the distal tips of the branches of the sulcus. The spines. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned p
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