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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Volume 15, No. 6, pp. 251-295, 9 figs.
October 4, 1963
A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family Colubridae, from Middle America)
BY JOHN WELLMAN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE 1963
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch, Theodore H. Eaton, Jr.
Volume 15, No. 6, pp. 251-295, 9 figs. Published October 4, 1963
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
PRINTED BY JEAN M. NEIBARGER. STATE PRINTER TOPEKA. KANSAS 1963
[Illustration: Union Label]
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A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family Colubridae, from Middle America)
BY
JOHN WELLMAN
CONTENTS
PAGE
INTRODUCTION 253
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 254
MATERIALS AND METHODS 254
GENUS Conophis Peters 255 Key to the Species and Subspecies 257 Analysis of Characters 257 Scutellation 258 Size and Proportions 258 Color Pattern 260 Sexual Dimorphism 260 _C. lineatus_ 262 _C. lineatus dunni_ 262 _C. lineatus lineatus_ 267 _C. lineatus concolor_ 270 _C. nevermanni_ 272 _C. pulcher_ 274 _C. vittatus_ 277 Skull 282 Dentition 288 Vertebrae 288 Hemipenes 289 Food and Feeding 289 Effect of Poison 290
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family
- 2: Chicago Natural History Museum
- 3: The mid dorsal vertebral scale row
- 4: Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier Reichs
- 5: Teeth on dentary decreasing in size posteriorly
- 6: And subcaudals were the most useful scales
- 7: Lineatus concolor M 22 68 74 70
- 8: Lineatus dunni UMMZ 116537 from 1
- 9: Sexual dimorphism is evident in the number of subcaudals
- 10: Conophis lineatus dunni Smith
- 11: Characteristic of the species lineatus
- 12: Pulcher MCZ 49791 from Tegucigalpa
- 13: Conophis lineatus lineatus Dumeril
- 14: Sexual dimorphism is evident in the number of subcaudals
- 15: Veracruz no specific locality
- 16: Sexual dimorphism is evident in the number of subcaudals
- 17: Concolor in northern Honduras
- 18: Sexual dimorphism is evident in the number of subcaudals
- 19: To Conophis lineatus nevermanni
- 20: Sexual dimorphism is evident in the number of subcaudals
- 21: Pulcher or any member of the lineatus series
- 22: Conophis vittatus Peters Tomodon lineatum in part
- 23: Conophis vittatus videns Cope
- 24: Conophis vittatus vittatus x Conophis vittatus viduus
- 25: Vittatus is Coniophanes piceivittus taylori
- 26: Lineatus concolor UMMZ S 778
- 27: Together with the anterolateral edge of the frontal
- 28: Maxillo palatal pterygoid arch
- 29: The posterior part of the dentary underlies the splenial
- 30: Vittatus and one lamina in C
- 31: Lineatus concolor is most bilobed
- 32: Vittatus the most divergent unit
- 33: In the Late Pleistocene and Recent
- 34: Iconographie Generale des Ophidiens
- 35: Drei neue amerikanisches Schlangen
- 36: Complete Mammals of Washington
- 37: Subspeciation in the meadow mouse
- 38: Pleistocene pocket gophers from San Josecito Cave
- 39: The ancestry of modern Amphibia a review of the evidence
- 40: Raymond Hall and Ticul Alvarez
- 41: Some reptiles and amphibians from Korea