Description
Adults are usually 30 to 80 cm (11¾-31½ inches) long. Body usually pale greenish-brown, or yellowish-olive (sometimes pale brown), with alternating, darker brownish or greenish dorsal blotches, each bordered with yellowish scales. Head large, triangular, distinct from neck, narrow dark postocular stripe.
Scalation includes: 23 or 21 rows of dorsal scales at midbody; 125-135 ventral scales; 36-55 paired subcaudal scales; and 8 (sometimes 7 or 9) supralabial scales.
The color pattern consists of a gray ground color overlaid with a series of dark gray of grayish-black crossbands. A ventrolateral pattern of black spots against a gray-white background is also present.
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