Dorsum gray with complete dorsolateral and paravertebral stripes; longitudinal stripe on shank; interorbital bar absent H.
Dorsum brown with irregular dorsolateral stripes and interrupted paravertebral stripes; two transverse bars on shanks; interorbital bar present H.
The color in Panamanian staufferi is gray or gray-brown with a pair of distinct, complete, dark brown dorsolateral stripes, a pair of entire paravertebral stripes, and in some specimens a vertebral stripe.
This specimen is abnormal in several characters; in five places there is a fusion and separation of the vertebral and paravertebral scale rows, producing a change from 17 to 15 rows of dorsal scales.
In specimens in which the paravertebral stripes do not begin on the anterior-most part of the body, there is no paravertebral pigmentation anteriorly.
The absence of paravertebral stripes, the presence of a lateral dark stripe on the nape involving the 3rd and 4th rows of scales, and the darkly pigmented 1st scale-row, in combination with the characteristics of the genus, distinguish C.
Even as juveniles the paravertebral row is not darkly pigmented in C.
The paravertebral stripes begin anteriorly on the nape or at any point on the anterior one-third of the body and continue as discrete stripes onto the base of the tail.
Lateral dark stripe through eye involving upper half of second scale-row; dark stripe on paravertebral row, at least posteriorly C.
In some specimens the dorsum between the paravertebralstripes is still paler brown.
Paravertebral rows were continuous posteriorly in all specimens examined by me.
The presence of paravertebral stripes in combination with the characteristics of the genus distinguish Conophis pulcher from all other snakes in southern Mexico and Central America.
All of the specimens have the paired paravertebral spots and blotches with light centers.
This race is characterized by paired, elongated, pale-centered, paravertebral spots on the anterior part of the body.
This subspecies is characterized by the presence of continuous dark paravertebral stripes on the anterior part of the body, and light-centered dorsal body-blotches and lateral intercalary spots (Pl.
The middorsal pale area (formed by the suffusion of the vertebral stripe) and paravertebral and dorsolateral rows of spots are pale green.
The diffuse middorsal area is expanded and encloses the paravertebral rows of spots.
The tan vertebral stripe is diffuse and nearly fills the paravertebral dark fields; the paravertebral stripes are faint posteriorly; throughout their length they are scalloped--the beginning of their fragmentation into spots (Fig.
In some individuals the vertebral pale area does not include the paravertebral spots; in other individuals the pale area includes not only the paravertebral rows, but, at least anteriorly, the dorsolateral rows.
The lateral and dorsolateral stripes are cream-colored; the paravertebral stripes are white.
Ratio of Number of Granules Separating Paravertebral Stripes to Granules Abound Midbody (PV/GAB) in Three Subspecies of Cnemidophorus sacki~ Key for Table: No.
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