Chin shields or chinshields, genials scales on a snake are scales found on the underside of the snake's head towards the anterior and touching the lower...
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labials. Along the chin connected to the infralabials is a pair of shields called the anterior chin shields. Next to the anterior chin shields, further back...
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contact with the anterior chin shields. The anterior chin shields are as long as or a little longer than the posterior chin shields. The dorsal scales are...
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its four lower labials are in contact with the anterior chin shields; the posterior chin shields are one-half to two-thirds the length of the anterior....
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5th (or 5th & 6th) enter the eye. The anterior chin shields are shorter than the posterior chin shields. L. ahaetulla feeds on small birds and their eggs...
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longitudinal groove on the underside of the head between large, paired chin shields and smaller gular scales. This is referred to as Mental groove. Snake...
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side of the head is glossy dark with scattered yellow flecking, the chin shields are yellow with brownish-black mottling at the margins, and eyes are...
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the eye; 4 or 5 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields; posterior chin-shields nearly as long as the anterior, separated from each other...
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labials in contact with the anterior chin shield. Anterior chin shields a little longer than the posterior chin shields. Snakebite Maritz, B.; Burger, M....
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labials; its point is between two large chin-shields, which may be in contact behind it; a smaller chin shield on each side of the larger pair. Upper surface...
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largest. Four lower labials are in contact with the anterior chin shields. The posterior chin shields are small. The dorsal scales are in 13 rows at midbody...
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entering the eye; 4 or 5 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are longer than the posterior. Scales smooth, in 17 rows. Ventrals...
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a long suture with its fellow. There are two pairs of chin shields. The anterior chin shields are small, much shorter than posterior, and are in contact...
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entering the eye; and five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than the posterior. The dorsal scales are arranged...
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fifth entering the eye; 5 Lower labials in contact with the anterior chin shields, which are shorter than the posterior; the latter in contact anteriorly...
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chin shields, the first lower labial usually separated from its fellow by the mental; posterior chin shields a little longer than the anterior chin shields...
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contact with the anterior chin shields. The posterior chin shields are narrower and a little shorter than the anterior chin shields and separated by one scale...
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third and fourth entering the eye, the last sometimes divided; anterior chin-shields rather indistinct, separated. Scales with a tubercle or keel, in 50–70...
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labials in contact with the anterior chin shields. The anterior chin shields are shorter than the posterior chin shields. The dorsal scales are in 19 rows...
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India. These species are identifiable by having a mental groove in their chin shields. Currently, four species are recognized, including one newly described...
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fifth entering the eye; 4 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than the posterior. Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 172–188;...
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entering the eye; four or five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields; latter as long as or longer than the posterior; anterior palatine teeth...
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labials in contact with the anterior chin shields. The anterior chin shields are as long as the posterior chin shields or a little longer. The dorsal scales...
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labials 1–3 contacting the loreal, five lower labials contacting the chin shields (Homalophis doriae has upper labials 2–5 or 2–6 contacting the loreal)...
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and 13–17 sublabials. The first three or four sublabials contact the chin shields, of which only one pair exists. Often, two fangs are on each maxilla...
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first 3–4 sublabials are in contact with the anterior chin shields. The posterior chin shields are small and often indistinguishable from the gulars....
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labials in contact with the anterior chin shield. Anterior chin shields slightly longer than posterior chin shields. Ventrals 138–158; anal plate entire;...
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contact with the anterior chin shields, which are as long as or a little longer than the posterior. Anterior chin shields in contact with three lower...
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posteriorly with a pair of pentagonal chin-shields, followed by a second smaller pair; the anterior pair of chin-shields in contact with the first infralabial...
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supralabials by three or four rows of suboculars. Of the two pairs of chin shields, the front pair is notably enlarged. The two maxillary bones support...
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