Description
Blackish brown, both dorsally and ventrally. A bright red stripe along each side, usually about 2½ scales rows wide, beginning on the labials (both upper and lower).
Adults may attain a total length of 40 cm (15¾ inches).
Dorsal scales smooth, arranged in 17 rows at midbody, in 19 rows behind the head. Ventrals 165-172; subcaudals 6-8.
Snout obtusely pointed. Rostral about ¼ the length of the shielded part of the head. Portion of the rostral visible from above as long as its distance from the frontal. Nasals broadly in contact with each other behind the rostral. Frontal as long as broad or slightly longer than broad. Eye small, its diameter slightly less than the length of the ocular shield. Diameter of body 30 to 33 times in the total length. Ventrals twice as broad as the contiguous scales. End of tail flat dorsally, obliquely truncate, with strongly bicarinate or tricarinate dorsal scales. Terminal scute with a transverse ridge, but no points.
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