In reptiles, the supralabial scales, also called upper-labials, are those scales that border the mouth opening along the upper jaw. They do not include...
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temporal scales are located on the side of the head between the parietal scales and the supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales. There are...
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scale is a large scale that forms in some crotaline snakes (pitvipers) when the prelacunal scale fuses with the second (rarely the third) supralabial...
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males/females, 70–75/54–59 subcaudal scales in males/females, and 7–12 supralabial scales. Their color patterns are often found to be green or blue-green, with...
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males/females, and 9–11 supralabial scales of which the 3rd is the largest. Toriba and Sawai (1990) give 167–179/172–184 ventral scales in males/females, 56–70/53–63...
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number of prefoveal scales varies between two and eight. Usually, the first supralabial scale is in broad contact with the prenasal scale, although slightly...
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contacting each other. Eyes are separated from supralabial scales by a row of large subocular scales. Dorsal scales are usually smooth, but sometimes have a...
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Florida cottonmouth (category Pages using multiple image with auto scaled images)
species). Additionally, the third supralabial usually reaches the eye orbit (small scales are usually between supralabials and the eye orbit in all other...
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and the supralabials below are scales called temporal scales. On the underside of the head, a snake has an anterior scale called the mental scale. Connected...
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upper edges of each postorbital scale. The lower postorbital stripe reaches the anterior part of the seventh supralabial scale, but does not continue to the...
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recognized. Scalation includes 31 (31-33) rows of dorsal scales at midbody, 199-210 ventral scales, 72-84 subcaudal scales, and 8 (7-9) supralabial scales. Found...
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the sides, tip, and underside of the tail. They usually have seven supralabial scales and four enlarged nuchals. Young skinks' colorations are more vivid...
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longitudinal dorsal scale rows 11 supralabial scales 2 rows of infralabial scales (5 scales in 1st row, 6 scales in 2nd row) The preauricular scales are granular...
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Black mamba (section Scalation)
to 281 ventral scales, 109 to 132 divided subcaudal scales, and a divided anal scale. Its mouth is lined with 7–8 supralabial scales above, with the...
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38-53/30-44 subcaudal scales in males/females. On the head there are 8-13 strongly keeled intersupraocular scales, 8-10 supralabial scales, none of which are...
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differentiate species from one another. Supralabial scales Rostral scale Mental scale Labial scales Snake scales Anatomical terms of location Wikimedia...
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Western green mamba (section Scalation)
is lined with 7 to 9 supralabial scales above, the fourth and sometimes fifth one located under the eye, and 9–10 sublabial scales below. The western green...
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elliptical pupil. Usually eight (6-10) supralabial scales and usually 10-11 (8-13) sublabials are present. The dorsal scales are mostly keeled and at midbody...
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ventral scales, 63–90 subcaudal scales, and 8 (sometimes 7 or 9) supralabial scales. During 1965–2011, 2447 snakebites from this snake are reported with...
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the large scales on the forehead, a single nasal scale bordering the second supralabial scale, the absence of the loreal and preocular scales, a lone postocular...
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Eastern brown snake (section Scalation)
Its mouth is bordered by six supralabial scales above, and seven (rarely eight) sublabial scales below. Its nasal scale is almost always undivided, and...
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9 large symmetrical plates, 6–10 (usually 8) supralabial scales, and 8–13 (usually 10) sublabial scales. The color pattern consists of a pale tan to pinkish-tan...
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Craspedocephalus trigonocephalus (section Scales)
two or three postoculars, 9–10 supralabial scales, three or four infralabials, and 142–160 ventrals; The anal scale is not divided; their 53–69 subcaudals...
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head, smooth dorsal scales arranged in 17 rows, and 168 ventral and 27 paired subcaudal scales. The species has eight supralabial scales (fourth and fifth...
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of dorsal scales at the middle of the body. It has seven supralabial scales, out of which the third and fourth touch the eye. The loreal scale is present...
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Boa imperator (section Scalation)
imperator has 55–79 dorsal scales, 225–253 ventral scales, 47–69 subcaudal scales, 18–22 supralabial scales and 1–2 anal scales. Boa imperator is commonly...
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types of labial scales: Supralabials are the scales that form part of the upper lip. Also called upper labials. Sublabials are the scales that form part...
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males/females or 148–159 in general, 72–76/59–65 subcaudal scales in males/females, and 9–11 supralabial scales (9–10 with the third being the largest). In Borneo...
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Jameson's mamba (section Scalation)
subcaudal scales, and a divided anal scale. Its mouth is lined with 7 to 9 (usually 8) supralabial scales above and 8 to 10 (usually 9) sublabial scales below...
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King brown snake (section Scalation)
divided), and a divided anal scale. The temporolabial scale and last (sixth) supralabial scale (both above the snake's mouth) are fused in the eastern...
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