Melanophidium Guenther , 1864

Szyndlar, Zbigniew & Georgalis, Georgios L., 2023, An illustrated atlas of the vertebral morphology of extant non-caenophidian snakes, with special emphasis on the cloacal and caudal portions of the column, Vertebrate Zoology 73, pp. 717-886 : 717

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Material examined.

Melanophidium wynaudense (Beddome, 1863) (MCZ Herp R-24739).

Description (Fig. 45).

Trunk vertebrae. An axis and seven following vertebrae only were available for direct study; they do not differ from the anterior trunk vertebrae of other uropeltid genera.

Number of vertebrae. Data from literature and personal communications (all for Melanophidium wynaudense ): 219+3+14+fusion (MCZ Herp R-24739; Agustin Scanferla, unpublished data, personal communication); 168 trunk and cloacal vertebrae plus 14+ caudal vertebrae ( Alexander and Gans 1966).