Laticauda semifasciata

Tsai, Tein-Shun & Mao, Jean-Jay, 2017, Zavreliella undetermined, Zoological Studies 56 (38), pp. 1-23 : 9

Laticauda semifasciata

Body with bands that are broadest at vertebral line, tapering off laterally ( Fig. 3J ); tail laterally compressed; body scales smooth; ventral scales on posterior half to two-thirds of body keeled; ventral scales on poseterior one-third of body notched in central region of posterior margin; upper head distinctly marked; head with 3 prefrontals and no loreals, while the 2nd chin shields not in contact with the infralabials; anal scale divided.

Figures

Fig. 3. Representative images of the dorsal head, anterior body, middle body, and posterior body of potential types of shed skins for the snake species: (A) Gonyosoma frenatum (patterned; juvenile); (B) G. frenatum (not patterned; adult); (C) Hebius miyajimae (patterned; adult); (D) H. sauteri (not patterned; adult); (E) Hebius sp. (not-patterned; juvenile); (F) Hypsiscopus plumbea (not patterned; adult); (G) Indotyphlops braminus (not patterned, with only part of head; adult); (H) Laticauda colubrina (patterned; adult); (I) L. laticaudata (patterned; adult); (J) L. semifasciata (patterned; adult). Scale bar = 0.5 cm, except for (G), where the scale bar = 0.1 cm.