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FIG. 2 in Naja romani (Hoffstetter, 1939) (Serpentes: Elapidae) from the late Miocene of the Northern Caucasus: the last East European large cobra

FIG. 2. — The precloacal vertebra of Naja romani (Hoffstetter, 1939) from Solnechnodolsk locality in dorsal (A), ventral (B), left lateral (C), right lateral (D), anterior (E) and posterior (F) views. Scale bar: 5 mm.

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Fig. 4 in A new species of snail-eating snakes of the genus Pareas Wagler, 1830 (Reptilia: Serpentes) from eastern Himalayas, India

Fig. 4. Pareas kaduri sp. nov. Paratype, ♂ (NCBS BH655). A–B. Hemipenis, lateral view. Scale bars = 1 mm.

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Fig. 6 in A new species of snail-eating snakes of the genus Pareas Wagler, 1830 (Reptilia: Serpentes) from eastern Himalayas, India

Fig. 6. ML phylogeny of Pareas based on partial sequences of the mitochondrial cyt b gene generated through 1000 non-parametric bootstrap pseudoreplicates under the GTR + G model of sequence evolution. Numbers at nodes represent ML bootstrap support and BI posterior probability. For a complete tree see Appendix III.

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Fig. 3 in A new species of snail-eating snakes of the genus Pareas Wagler, 1830 (Reptilia: Serpentes) from eastern Himalayas, India

Fig. 3. Pareas kaduri sp. nov. Holotype, ♂ (BNHS 3574). View of head. A. Left lateral view. B. Dorsal view. C. Ventral view. Scale bars = 5 mm.

FIG. 6 in From folkloric belief to fishery bycatch: contrasting cryptozoological and euhemeristic interpretations of Australian sea serpents

FIG. 6. — String of A, fishing-net floats, which, if nonlethally entangled around an actively swimming animal and bobbing up and down on the water surface might be misinterpreted as the long tail of a presumed sea serpent, especially if the UMO was also pulling a "mane" of intertwined fishing-net and accumulations of seaweed or other natural or anthropogenic debris; B, cork pieces used to buoy a gillnet;C, wooden casks used to suspend a purse-seine. Photo credits: R. France (taken at Battle Harbour National Historic District, Battle Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador [A]; Cape Ann Museum, Massachusetts [B]); nineteenth-century illustration reproduced from France 2019a [C].

FIG. 3 in From folkloric belief to fishery bycatch: contrasting cryptozoological and euhemeristic interpretations of Australian sea serpents

FIG. 3. — Illustrations of the many-humped, string-of-buoys Gloucester Sea Serpent observed by hundreds over a period of weeks in Massachusetts in the nineteenth century. Further details of these sightings as well as other illustrations are presented in France (2019a, b).

FIG. 2 in From folkloric belief to fishery bycatch: contrasting cryptozoological and euhemeristic interpretations of Australian sea serpents

FIG. 2. — Unidentified marine objects seen in waters around Australia in A, 1900 (anecdote 19, Wide World Magazine); B, 1913 (anecdote 28, Sunday Times); C, 1939 (anecdote 67, Cryptozoology); D, 1981 (Papua New Guinea waters; Smith 2020). Anecdote numbers correspond to those from Smith (2020). The illustration of the New Guinea UMO depicts the classic manyhumped, string-of-buoys "sea serpent" seen repeatedly around the world, which could, as has been suggested for other regions, be an actual string of entangled buoys from a fishing net. The 1913 Australian UMO was observed to sport a beard and dorsal crest, both traits which have been suggested to indicate presence of entangled fishing gear for other UMOs. Clearly the coils or loops elevated above the surface of the water that were observed for the 1900 and 1939 UMOs are biologically impossible and consequently represent a train of anthropogenic material.

FIG. 4 in From folkloric belief to fishery bycatch: contrasting cryptozoological and euhemeristic interpretations of Australian sea serpents

FIG. 4. — Pre-plastic maritime equipment forming the backbone of the long tails of putative sea serpents.A-F, early to mid twentieth-century fishing ropes and nets constructed of natural fibre (hemp); G, H, remarkably preserved hemp ropes retrieved from a 400 year-old sunken Basque whaling ship. Photo credits: R. France (taken at the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic,Lunenburg, Nova Scotia [A, B]; the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia [C, D]; Battle Harbour National Historic District, Battle Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador [E, F] [see France 2019a for other, similar photos as well as nineteenth-century illustrations of the same]); Red Bay National Historic Site & UNESCO World Heritage Site, Red Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador (G, H).

FIG. 5 in From folkloric belief to fishery bycatch: contrasting cryptozoological and euhemeristic interpretations of Australian sea serpents

FIG. 5. — Pre-plastic maritime material forming the humps of the long tails of putative sea serpents. A, B, blown-glass balls used as floats from the nineteenth-century; C, D, nineteenth-century cork floats; E, F, wooden casks of the type often used as floats on fishing nets. Photos credits: R. France (taken at the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia [A, D]; the Battle Harbour National Historic District, Battle Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador [E, F]); the Mystic Seaport Museum Archive and Collections, Mystic, Connecticut (B, C).

FIG. 1 in From folkloric belief to fishery bycatch: contrasting cryptozoological and euhemeristic interpretations of Australian sea serpents

FIG. 1. — Unidentified marine objects (UMOs) representing the "many-humped" or "string-of-buoys" typology of "sea serpents" observed in A, Géographe Bay, Australia, in 1879; B, the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, in 1934. Further details of these sightings and illustrations of other UMOs from the nearby Western Pacific are presented in France (2020a).

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Fig. 1. N in Obtaining Oviparous Grass Snake, Natrix Natrix (Serpentes, Colubridae), Embryos At Early Developmental Stages By Caesarean Section

Fig. 1. N. natrix embryos at developmental stages A. 20. B. 22. C. 24. D. 25. E. 26. F. 27: av —auditory vesicle; cl —crystalline

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Fig. 3 in The Nomenclature And Systematics Of Some Australasian Homalopsid Snakes (Squamata: Serpentes: Homalopsidae)

Fig. 3. The paratype of M. resetari, BMNH 1935.7.65.2. A: shows the enlarged occipital scales (O) and their relationship to the temporal (T). B: illustrates the single preocular scale. C: illustrates the three pairs of chin shields with the 3rd pair longer than wide. D: illustrates the edge of the ventral scales (V) and first 3 dorsal rows and the keels on the scales above dorsal row 3.

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Fig. 1 in The Nomenclature And Systematics Of Some Australasian Homalopsid Snakes (Squamata: Serpentes: Homalopsidae)

Fig. 1. The maximum likelihood tree of the Homalopsidae from Alfaro et al. (2008), modified to show that Australasia has been colonized by at least three lineages of homalopsid snakes (Australasian Icon Map): one colonization by the lineage that gave rise to the coastal Australian bockadam, Cerberus australis; one colonization by the coastal crab-eating snake, Fordonia leucobalia and; one colonization by the lineage that gave rise to both the coastal Myron species as well as the freshwater Enhydris polylepis (and probably C. annulata and Heurnia ventromaculata). The other lineages shown on the tree are South Asian or Southeast Asian.

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Fig. 2 in The Nomenclature And Systematics Of Some Australasian Homalopsid Snakes (Squamata: Serpentes: Homalopsidae)

Fig. 2. The holotype of Myron karnsi, SMF 19569. A and B: show the overall of head plates. C: illustrates the enlarged occipital scales (O) and their relationship to the temporal (T). D: has the three pair of chin shields numbered and the 3rd pair is as wide as long.

Fig. 9 in Taxonomic revaluation of the Ahaetulla prasina (H. Boie in F. Boie, 1827) complex from Northeast India: resurrection and redescription of Ahaetulla flavescens (Wall, 1910) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae)

Fig. 9. Map of Northeast India, showing the distribution records of Ahaetulla flavescens (Wall, 1910) comb. nov.; red star represents the type locality.

Fig. 8 in Taxonomic revaluation of the Ahaetulla prasina (H. Boie in F. Boie, 1827) complex from Northeast India: resurrection and redescription of Ahaetulla flavescens (Wall, 1910) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae)

Fig. 8. Ahaetulla flavescens (Wall, 1910) comb. nov. Live uncollected specimen from Mizoram, showing the usual green colouration which is dominant in this species. Photo: Ajay Karthik.

Fig. 7 in Taxonomic revaluation of the Ahaetulla prasina (H. Boie in F. Boie, 1827) complex from Northeast India: resurrection and redescription of Ahaetulla flavescens (Wall, 1910) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae)

Fig. 7. Ahaetulla flavescens (Wall, 1910) comb. nov. Live uncollected specimens from Arunachal Pradesh, showing the unusual buff or yellowish-brown colouration. Photo: Bharat Bhushan Bhatt.

Fig. 6. Dryophis prasinusvar. flavescens Wall, 1910 in Taxonomic revaluation of the Ahaetulla prasina (H. Boie in F. Boie, 1827) complex from Northeast India: resurrection and redescription of Ahaetulla flavescens (Wall, 1910) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae)

Fig. 6. Dryophis prasinusvar. flavescens Wall, 1910, lectotype (NHMUK 1908.6.23.58) and paralectotype (NHMUK 1908.6.23.59). Jar label. Photo: ©The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London.

Fig. 5. Dryophis prasinus var. flavescens Wall, 1910 in Taxonomic revaluation of the Ahaetulla prasina (H. Boie in F. Boie, 1827) complex from Northeast India: resurrection and redescription of Ahaetulla flavescens (Wall, 1910) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae)

Fig. 5. Dryophis prasinus var. flavescens Wall, 1910, lectotype (NHMUK 1908.6.23.58). Head close-up showing the divided 4th supralabial on right side, a unique identifying character in ascertaining its type status. Photo: ©The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London.

Fig. 2 in Taxonomic revaluation of the Ahaetulla prasina (H. Boie in F. Boie, 1827) complex from Northeast India: resurrection and redescription of Ahaetulla flavescens (Wall, 1910) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae)

Fig. 2. The bPTP output trees generated from three mitochondrial loci ML trees. Blue coloured branches and black bars indicate monophyly of that lineage, where validity of lineages is further ascertained with genetic divergence (genetic p-distance) and geographic isolation. The grey bars indicate the genetic distance (G1) and geographic isolation (G2) among lineages. The values on clades indicate the posterior probability. The A. prasina complex (Lineage 1 and Lineage 2) from northeast India shows a very low genetic divergence with continuous geographic distribution.