Xenopholis Peters, 1869

Luna, Igor Veronese de, Ugalde, Miguel Relvas, Guimarães, Mariana Rocha Santos, Hoffmann, Kauann, Citeli, Nathalie, Kiefer, Mara Cintia & Hamdan, Breno, 2025, Fig. 3 in Positive association between PTN polymorphisms and schizophrenia in Northeast Chinese Han population., Zoological Studies 64 (20), pp. 141-149 : 9

Xenopholis Peters, 1869

1. 126–169 ventral scales in males and 128–175 in females; 28–45 subcaudal scales in males and 27– 42 females; top of the head from red to reddish-brown in life, and light brown or pale brown after preservation; dorsal ground colour of body red, reddish-brown to orange in life and light or pale brown after preservation, with black alternated paravertebral blotches, sometimes connected forming conspicuous cross-bands ................................ ....................................................... Xenopholis scalaris ( Fig. 27h )

Key for Elapidae Boie, 1827

1. Dorsal colour pattern with black, red and white rings, mental separated from the first pair of chin shields by the first infralabial ........................................................................................ Micrurus

Figures

Fig. 27. Representative Dipsadidae Snakes of Rio de Janeiro: a, Tomodon dorsatus from São Paulo/SP; b, Tropidodryas serra from Barra do Piraí/ RJ; c, Tropidodryas striaticeps from Rio de Janeiro State; d, Xenodon merremii with brown blotches from Rio de Janeiro State; e, Xenodon merremii with black blotches from Três Rios/RJ; f, Xenodon neuwiedii juvenile from Mangaratiba/RJ; g, Xenodon neuwiedii adult from Nova Friburgo/RJ; h, Xenopholis scalaris from Magé/RJ. RJ = Rio de Janeiro, SP = São Paulo. Photos by Breno Hamdan (c, d, e, g, h), Edson Taciano (b), Igor Veronese de Luna (a, f)