. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History) ... Serpents. 108. PAKANCIA. 291 Maxillary teeth subequal, 17 or 18; mandibular teeth subequal. Head small, not distinct from neck ; eye smaU, with round pupil; nostril directed upwards, in a semidivided nasal; a single internasal; no prseocular, loreal and prsefrontal entering the eye. Body cylin- drical ; scales smooth, without apical pits, in 19 rows; ventrals rounded. Tail short; subeaudals in two rows. North America. Fig. Skull of Faranoia abam/ra. 1. Farancia abacura. <)â HellCOps aoacurus, J^uwr. up. c-k. eu. ^, m
. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History) ... Serpents. 108. PAKANCIA. 291 Maxillary teeth subequal, 17 or 18; mandibular teeth subequal. Head small, not distinct from neck ; eye smaU, with round pupil; nostril directed upwards, in a semidivided nasal; a single internasal; no prseocular, loreal and prsefrontal entering the eye. Body cylin- drical ; scales smooth, without apical pits, in 19 rows; ventrals rounded. Tail short; subeaudals in two rows. North America. Fig. Skull of Faranoia abam/ra. 1. Farancia abacura. <)â HellCOps aoacurus, J^uwr. up. c-k. eu. ^, m. p. x\ji, ui. (1842). Hydrops reinwardtii, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 68 (1842). Farancia drummondi, Gray, I. c. fasciata, Gray, Cat. p. 74 (1849). abacurus, Baird ^ Gir. Cat. N. Am. Rent. p. 123 (1863). Oalopisma abacurum, Dum. ^ Bibr. vii. p. 342, pi. Ixv. (1854). reinwardti, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. m. 1865, p. 243, and Icon. Gin. 29, pi. vi. (1868). Hydrops abacurus, Garm. N. Am. Bept. p. 36, pi. i. fig. 5 (1883) ; H. Garm. Bull. IlUn. Lab. iii. 1892, p. 281. Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above, forming a suture with the internasal, which is much broader than long; frontal about once and a half as long as broad, longer than its TJ 2. 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 original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937. London, Printed by order of the Trustees
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