Gallery For Identification Characteristics
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Chart 1 - Nostrils directed slightly upwards
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Chart 2 - Frontal constricted in the middle, twice as long as broad
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Chart 3 - Internasals much narrowed anteriorly. Nearly as long as the prefrontals
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Chart 4 - One preocular scale only
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Chart 5 - Temporals are 2+2 or 2+3
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Chart 6 - 9 supralabials, 4th and 5th touching the eye, the 6th excluded by the lowest postocular
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Chart 7 - Body rather stout
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Chart 8 - Small tail
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Chart 9 - Scales in 19 distinct rows
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Body of Chequered Keelback
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