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FIGURE 3 in A new species of tree snake (Dipsadoboa, Serpentes: Colubridae) from 'sky island' forests in northern Mozambique, with notes on other members of the Dipsadoboa werneri group
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FIGURE 3. Dipsadoboa montisilva sp. nov. Holotype, adult male, PEM R21122, Mt Mabu Forest Base Camp, Zambezia Province, Mozambique. A: whole body in life, showing uniform olive-brown dorsal coloration and showing the weakly-keeled orange ventrals, whose coloration suffuses onto the three adjacent lateral body scale rows. Head views of holotype (after preservation). B: right side of head showing ventral coloration extending onto upper labials, and two upper labials (4–5) entering orbit. C: dorsal surface of head. D: ventral surface of head showing paired anterior chin shields. E: juvenile female, PEM R21195, M'pàluwé Ridge Forest, Ribáuè Massif, Nampula Province, Mozambique, showing uniform light brown coloration, slightly paler ventrum, long tail and weakly-keeled ventrals.
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Published as part of Branch, William R., Bayliss, Julian, Bittencourt-Silva, Gabriela B., Conradie, Werner, Engelbrecht, Hanlie M., Loader, Simon P., Menegon, Michele, Nanvonamuquitxo, Cristóvão & Tolley, Krystal A., 2019, A new species of tree snake (Dipsadoboa, Serpentes: Colubridae) from 'sky island' forests in northern Mozambique, with notes on other members of the Dipsadoboa werneri group, pp. 541-563 in Zootaxa 4646 (3) on page 553, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4646.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/3351108
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