Fig. 28 in New Taxa And Cryptic Species Of Neotropical Snakes (Xenodontinae), With Commentary On Hemipenes As Generic And Specific Characters

Fig. 28. The deeply divided, exceedingly long-lobed hemipenis of Pseudaspis cana (Linnaeus) (AMNH R-49948, right hemipenis). The contralateral (left) organ of this snake originates near the end of the tail at subcaudal 44 (there are 55 subcaudals total); although the left organ was partially everted, its retractor muscle retained a series of sinuous folds that seemed to straighten somewhat after being freed from membranous tissue. The branches of the sulcus spermaticus orbit each lobe several times; the sulcus orientation is ''centrifugal-orbital'' following the classification proposed herein. (The orbiting nature of the sulcus is not clearly evident in a partially everted organ illustrated by Cope, 1895: pl. 24, figs 9, 9a.)