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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

labials in contact with the anterior chin shield. Anterior chin shields a little longer than the posterior chin shields. Snakebite Maritz, B.; Burger, M....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

India. These species are identifiable by having a mental groove in their chin shields. Currently, four species are recognized, including one newly described...

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;...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

first 3–4 sublabials are in contact with the anterior chin shields. The posterior chin shields are small and often indistinguishable from the gulars....

labials in contact with the anterior chin shield. Anterior chin shields slightly longer than posterior chin shields. Ventrals 138–158; anal plate entire;...

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...

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...

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...