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FIG. 5 in A New Genus and New Tribe for Enicognathus melanauchen Jan, 1863, a Neglected South American Snake (Colubridae: Xenodontinae), with Taxonomic Notes on Some Dipsadinae
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FIG. 5. Hemipenis of Amnesteophis melanauchen (Jan 1863). Manually everted left organ of holotype of Enicognathus melanauchen, in sulcate (left), apical (top), and asulcate (right) views. (Basal half of organ is split and spread flat; the inflated distal half is fully everted but probably not maximally expanded.) The basally spinulate hemipenis is mostly spinose (spines emphasized by stippling); the spines are replaced on the small lobes by larger, soft flat- tened papillae; the unforked sulcus spermaticus extends centripetally to apex of the left lobe (sinistral sulcus) without entering a nude area in the lobular crotch; calyces are lacking (scale line = 1 mm).