FIGURE 10 in Taxonomic revision of the parrot snake Leptophis ahaetulla (Serpentes, Colubridae)

FIGURE 10. Color patterns and color tones variability of Leptophis bolivianus: (A) Paratype FMNH 35614, SVL 727 mm, (B) Paratype FMNH 35620, SVL 1118 mm, (C) Holotype UMMZ 67973, SVL 1079 mm and (D) Paratype UMMZ 67976b, SVL 755 mm—all with incomplete tail—showing the variation in the distribution, number and extent of black spots on the supraocular and parietal scales (see text for discussion); (E) AMNH 141443, SVL 367 mm, a female from San Antonio de Parapeti, Santa Cruz, Bolivia exhibiting the banded pattern typical of juveniles of most species of Leptophis, scale bar = 0.5 cm; (F) Female paratopotype that also bears the USNM number 67977, note that the dorsal scales of its tail are keeled only from the point of reduction from six to four rows (indicated by the arrow), scale bar = 1 cm; (G) Holotype UMMZ 67973, SVL 1079 mm showing the ventral scales not edged. Courtesy of The Field Museum, FMNH 35614 and FMNH 35620 (C), D. Kizirian (E) and N.R. Albuquerque (F–G).