Subcaudals were counted on only the right side beginning at the first scale that contacts a corresponding scale from the opposite side; fusion of particular pairs of subcaudals was determined.
The discussion above demonstrates that the number of subcaudals and the ratio of tail length to total length are weak characteristics for diagnosing T.
One specimen has left subcaudal 28 fused with both adjacent subcaudals (also fused) on the right.
Moreover, the diagnostic ranges of the number of subcaudals in males of hallowelli and the ratio of tail length to total length in males of gracilis do not include the recalculated means for those characteristics.
Differences always exist in the number of subcaudals and in the tail/body ratio; males have more subcaudals and relatively longer tails than do females (table 3).
Scutellation Labials, dorsals, ventrals, and subcaudals were the most useful scales.
Sexual dimorphism is evident in the number of subcaudals; there are, on the average, fewer subcaudals in females than in males of each subspecies.
The subcaudals are nearly always much fewer than the ventrals, but the difference is often not so great in the males as in the females, the tail of which is usually shorter in proportion to the body.
The subcaudals clipped were the first 19 following the basal scale.
In the racer, as in most other colubrines, the subcaudals are divided into a double series, one on the left and one on the right.
Tail moderate; subcaudals in 2 rows, or partly single, partly in 2 rows.
Belly yellowish in front, black behind; subcaudals white, with a longitudinal black band running between them.
Tail moderate or long; subcaudals all or for the most part in 2 rows.
Tail moderate or short; subcaudalssingle or in 2 rows.
In their geographic variation the ventrals and subcaudals follow clines, and do not in themselves warrant subspecific divisions.
Scalation is remarkably uniform in all the subspecies of sirtalis, but coastal and northern populations tend to have fewer ventrals and subcaudals than do their counterparts farther inland and farther south.
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