Dermophis Peters, 1879

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1. Dermophis Peters, 1879

Type species: Siphonops mexicanus Duméril & Bibron, 1841 ( Fig. 3 ) by subsequent designation of Noble (1924). Diagnosis: The only dermophiids without inner mandibular teeth.

Distribution: Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama. Content: Seven species (costaricense, glandulosus , gracilior , mexicanus , oaxacae , occidentalis , parviceps ).

Figures

FIGURE 3. Volume reconstruction of HRXCT data showing skull of Dermophis mexicanus (BMNH 64.1.26.397). Views as in Fig. 2. Scale bar = 1 mm. Scan parameters: a molybdenum target set at 100 kV and 200 μA; scan data were collected at 2.0 frames per second over 3142 projections in 360 ˚; reconstructed voxel size of 17 μm. Abbreviations as in Appendix.