Fig. 21 in New Taxa And Cryptic Species Of Neotropical Snakes (Xenodontinae), With Commentary On Hemipenes As Generic And Specific Characters

Fig. 21. Distinct hemipenial capitula (heads) with and without capitation. A. Rhadinaea taeniata (Peters). Retracted and everted views showing a capitate capitulum set off by a well-developed overhang that is interrupted only by entrance of the sulcus spermaticus (UMMZ 121522, left retracted and right everted organs; from Myers, 1974: 107, fig. 23A, B). B. Compsophis infralineatus (Günther). Sulcate and three-quarters views of a well-developed capitulum lacking capitation (MZC 181153, everted; from Cadle, 1996b: 75, fig. 17, as Geodipsas). The capitula are ornamented with calyces in A and with small spines in B. (See also fig. 3 for a distinct noncapitate capitulum that is distally nude and proximally spiculate.)