The right secondary "temporal" of one specimen is separated from the supralabialsby a posterior extension of the primary temporal.
Variation in Number of Supralabials Entering the Eye in 246 Specimens of Tantilla gracilis.
Excepting the number of temporals and the supralabials entering the orbit, the characteristics of the specimens in our sample are within the ranges of variation mentioned above.
Supralabials The supralabials are either six (usually) or seven on a side (Table 1).
We determined which supralabials are in contact with the eye and whether the mental is in contact with the anterior pair of chin-shields.
The specimen having the prefrontal in contact with labial 2 on the left and labial 3 on the right has seven supralabials on the right, the extra labial being added anterior to the eye.
All snakes that have the fourth and fifth labials entering the orbit on either side also have seven supralabials on the same side.
There is little or no brown on thesupralabials or the chin in the northern part of the range (Chiapas), whereas the greatest amount of brown on the labials and chin is found on some specimens from the southern part of the range (Honduras).
Supralabials having black borders above; head and body generally black with 2 or 4 white lines running length of body C.
Usually there are eight supralabials on each side; however, seven of the 27 specimens examined have seven supralabials on each side, and three others have seven on one side, and eight on the other.
Some of the specimens having brown on the supralabials also have dusky markings of tan or gray on the chin and infralabials.
Furthermore, the ventral margins of the supralabials are brown, and the pale dorsal stripes are tan and too wide for C.
Never is more than the lower third of the supralabials brown.
Variation in coloration and in number of supralabials appears to be of no geographic significance.
Variation in Numbers of Supralabials and Infralabials in a Brood of Seven Cottonmouths.
Numbers ofSupralabials and Infralabials of 102 Cottonmouths.
The supralabials (eight in most specimens) frequently vary (usually on one side only) from seven to nine.
In 102 snakes in which these characters were examined, four different combinations of supralabials and seven combinations of infralabials were found.
In still other instances one or two supralabials were divided horizontally into two scales.
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