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A large and unusually colored new snake species of the genus Tantilla (Squamata; Colubridae) from the Peruvian Andes [PeerJ] Snake Habitat, Snake Species, Dry Forest, Mitochondrial Dna, Snake Drawing, Snake Art, Animal References, Leopard Gecko, The Skull

A new colubrid species of the genus Tantilla from the dry forest of the northern Peruvian Andes is described on the basis of two specimens, which exhibit a conspicuous sexual dimorphism. Tantilla tjiasmantoi sp. nov. represents the third species of the genus in Peru. The new species is easily distinguished from its congeners by the combination of scalation characteristics and the unusual transversely-banded color pattern on the dorsum. A detailed description of the skull morphology of the…

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Dragon Snake (Xenodermus javanicus)   Dragon Snakes have three rows of oddly enlarged scales making them wildly different from any other species of snake. They were once placed in the catch-all colubrid family, but recent phylogenetic studies show them to be very different from most colubrids (duhhh). Some authorities now place them in their own family, Xenodermatidae. Non Venomous Snakes, Squidward Pictures, Snakes Species, Colubrid Snakes, Funny Squidward, Snake Creature, Dangerous Snakes, Snake Species, Danger Noodles

Dragon Snake (Xenodermus javanicus) Dragon Snakes have three rows of oddly enlarged scales making them wildly different from any other species of snake. They were once placed in the catch-all colubrid family, but recent phylogenetic studies show them to be very different from most colubrids (duhhh). Some authorities now place them in their own family, Xenodermatidae.

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