Python bivittatus bivittatus

Tsai, Tein-Shun & Mao, Jean-Jay, 2017, Zavreliella undetermined, Zoological Studies 56 (38), pp. 1-23 : 15

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.6620/ZS.2017.56-38
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scientific name	Python bivittatus bivittatus
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Python bivittatus bivittatus View in CoL

Body with many large brown blotches; head with a large, light-colored “Λ” configuration consisting of a pair of stripes each extending from the temporal region, through the eye, and to the nose ( Fig. 7F View Fig ); anterior body scales in greater than 50 rows; ventrals small and width only about two times that of the neighboring dorsal scale; body scales smooth; anal scale entire.

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Fig. 7. Representative images of the dorsal head, anterior body, middle body, and posterior body of potential types of shed skins for the snake species: (A) Ptyas dhumnades (patterned-type II; adult); (B) P. korros (patterned; juvenile; note the faint, light scales arranged in a transverse row on the anterior body); (C) P. korros (not patterned; adult); (D) P. mucosa (patterned-type I; juvenile); (E) P. mucosa (patterned-type II; adult); (F) Python bivittatus bivittatus (patterned; adult); (G) Rhabdophis formosanus (patterned; adult); (H) R. swinhonis (patterned; adult); (I) Sibynophis chinensis chinensis (patterned; adult); (J) Sinomicrurus hatori (patterned; adult). Scale bar = 0.5 cm.