An illustrated atlas of the vertebral morphology of extant non-caenophidian snakes, with special emphasis on the cloacal and caudal portions of the column
Author
Szyndlar, Zbigniew
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Slawkowska 17, 31 - 016 Krakow, Poland
Author
Georgalis, Georgios L.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7759-6146
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Slawkowska 17, 31 - 016 Krakow, Poland
dimetrodon82@gmail.com
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Vertebrate Zoology
2023
2023-09-27
73
717
886
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/vz.73.e101372
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/vz.73.e101372
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Bolyeria Gray, 1842
Material examined.
Bolyeria multocarinata
(
Boie
H in
Boie
F, 1827) (UMMZ 190727).
Description (Fig. 57).
Trunk vertebrae
.
Only two mid-trunk vertebrae were examined. Centrum shorter than wide; cotyle and condyle orbicular; distinct subcotylar tubercles present; neural arch moderately vaulted; posterior median notch of the neural arch deep; neural spine as high as long, with distinct anterodorsal and posterodorsal projections; prezygapophyseal accessory processes long; hypapophyses sigmoidal, present throughout the column; paracotylar foramina present.
Figure 57.
Bolyeriidae
:
Bolyeria multocarinata
(UMMZ 190727), two trunk vertebrae.
Trunk
/
caudal transition
. Unknown.
Number of vertebrae
.
Data from literature:
Bolyeria multocarinata
: 198 trunk vertebrae plus 87 cloacal and caudal vertebrae (
Hoffstetter 1960
).