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Fig. 11 in A time relic: a new species of dwarf boa, Tropidophis Bibron, 1840 (Serpentes: Amerophidia), from the Upper Amazon Basin

  • 1. Biogeography and Spatial Ecology Research Group, Life Sciences Faculty, Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Tena, Napo, Ecuador. & Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, INABIO, Quito, Ecuador.
  • 2. Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, INABIO, Quito, Ecuador. & Sumak Kawsay In Situ, Vía Río Anzu km 14, Mera, Pastaza, Ecuador. & Waska Amazonía, Vía Río Anzu ciudadela ecológico Waska, Mera, Pastaza, Ecuador.
  • 3. Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change / ZFMK, Museum Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113, Bonn, Germany.
  • 4. Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, INABIO, Quito, Ecuador.
  • 5. Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, 05503-90, Av. Vital Brazil, 1500, Butantã, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. & Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, Avenida Bento Gonçalves, 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.

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Fig. 11. Micro-CT images of the lateral view of the skulls of Tropidophis cacuangoae sp. nov., ♀ (DHMECN 15893, paratype), T. taczanowskyi (Steindachner, 1880) (NMW 14858, lectotype), T. melanurus (Schlegel, 1837) (ZFMK 65041), and Trachyboa boulengeri Peracca, 1910 (ZFMK 98727). Different skull elements are digitally colored and the mandibulae are removed for better visualization. Abbreviations: BO = basioccipital; BS = basisphenoid; COL = columella; CPS = conchal process of septomaxilla; ECP = ectopterygoid; EXO = exoccipital; F = frontal; MX = maxilla; NA = nasal; P = parietal; PAL = palatine; PFR = prefrontal; PMX = premaxilla; PO = postorbital; PRO = prootic; PT = pterygoid; Q = quadrate; SO = supraoccipital; ST = supratemporal.

Notes

Published as part of Ortega-Andrade, H. Mauricio, Bentley, Alexander, Koch, Claudia, Yánez-Muñoz, Mario H. & Entiauspe-Neto, Omar M., 2022, A time relic: a new species of dwarf boa, Tropidophis Bibron, 1840 (Serpentes: Amerophidia), from the Upper Amazon Basin, pp. 1-107 in European Journal of Taxonomy 854 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.854.2021, http://zenodo.org/record/7501327

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