Protobothrops mucrosquamatus

Tsai, Tein-Shun & Mao, Jean-Jay, 2017, Zavreliella undetermined, Zoological Studies 56 (38), pp. 1-23 : 12

Protobothrops mucrosquamatus

Upper body with a mid-dorsal series of dark, alternating, connected half-blotches, and a separate lateral blotch on each side of body tending to be in line with the mid-dorsal blotch on that side ( Fig. 6F ); head usually with a narrow, dark stripe extending posteriorly from the eye ( Fig. 6F ); body scales (heavily) keeled; upper head covered only with small scales (except for supraoculars) and with more than 10 scales between the supraoculars; anal scale entire.

Figures

Fig. 6. Representative images of the dorsal head, anterior body, middle body, and posterior body of potential types of shed skins for the snake species: (A) Ovophis makazayazaya (not patterned; adult); (B) Pareas atayal (not patterned; adult); (C) P. formosensis (not patterned; adult); (D) P. komaii (not patterned; adult); (E) Plagiopholis styani (patterned; adult); (F) Protobothrops mucrosquamatus (patterned; adult); (G) Psammodynastes pulverulentus papenfussi (patterned; adult); (H) Pseudoxenodon stejnegeri stejnegeri (patterned; adult); (I) P. s. stejnegeri (not patterned; adult); (J) Ptyas dhumnades (patterned-type I; juvenile). Scale bar = 0.5 cm.