FIGURE 5 in Aipysurus mosaicus, a new species of egg-eating sea snake (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae), with a redescription of Aipysurus eydouxii (Gray, 1849)

FIGURE 5. Micro-CT images of Aipysurus mosaicus sp. nov. from (A) left lateral and (B) dorsal view of skull, and (C) left lateral view of mid-caudal vertebrae; and Aipysurus eydouxii from (D) left lateral and (E) dorsal view of skull, and (F) left lateral view of mid-caudal vertebrae. Note the differences in the morphology of the premaxilla, maxilla, nasal, frontoparietal suture, and neural spine; see text for fuller discussion. Specimens illustrated are as follows: (A, B) SAMA R65222 holotype, (C) SAMA R23493 paratype, (D, E) MZB Ophi 4184, (F) SAMA R22569.