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Linnaeus, 1758: 222–223
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. ‘‘
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in Asia’’ in error.
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. Peters and Orejas-Miranda, 1970: 60.
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<bibRefCitation id="EF9A37B2FFF0FFB2FE6F992BFF10FA69" author="Dixon, James & John A. Wiest, Jr & Jose M. Cei" pageId="120" pageNumber="121" refId="ref82397" refString="Dixon, James R, John A. Wiest, Jr, and Jose M. Cei. 1993. Revision of the Neotropical snake genus Chironius Fitzinger (Serpentes, Colubridae). Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali (Turin), Monografie 8, 279 pp." type="book" year="1993">Dixon et al., 1993: 113</bibRefCitation>
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, 261 (generic revision; BMNH specimen listed from ‘‘south side Auyantepui,
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–TERRAMAR Expedition to Auyantepui.
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The one whole summit specimen (fig. 73) is a female, probably subadult,
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tail length (29.8
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of total length). Dorsal scales completely smooth except for a few weak anal ridges laterally above cloacal region, in 10-10-10 rows; apical pits absent. Ventrals 158, subcaudals 103, paired; anal plate entire. Supralabials 9/8, 2nd–3rd touching loreal, 4th–6th in eye; infralabials 8, first five touching anterior genials. Preoculars 1, postoculars 2. Temporals 1 + 1. About 41 maxillary teeth on right. Color in preservative indistinctly marked with dark gray transverse bands; the bands are separated by white middorsal scales anteriorly on the body and by whitish transverse lines posteriorly. These markings along with black scale edges and small spots give an overall mottled appearance of gray, black, and white (fig. 73 top).34 Supralabials mostly yellowish white, with labials 2–3 having dark posterior edges. An ill-defined
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<paragraph id="8BB44A43FFF0FFB2FD7B9AC7FCD5F91E" blockId="120.[701,1228,1687,1758]" pageId="120" pageNumber="121">34 Some remaining patches of stratum corneum suggest that the living coloration is in shades of brown.</paragraph>
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Fig. 73.
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<emphasis id="B97F9651FFF1FFB3FF4E9A3DFE5FF941" box="[225,398,1645,1665]" italics="true" pageId="121" pageNumber="122">Chironius fuscus</emphasis>
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(Linnaeus)
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, ×0.7; the species is broadly distributed in the lowlands of northern South America. This specimen (BMNH 1976.235, subadult ♀) was caught on the summit of Auyantepui in August 1974; a shed skin found in 1994 indicates a possibly persistent presence of this racer on the Auyán summit.
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<paragraph id="8BB44A43FFF2FFB0FF2F9C85FF37FE77" blockId="122.[128,654,213,791]" pageId="122" pageNumber="123">black postocular stripe extending from eye across lower part of primary temporal and upper part of ultimate supralabial. Underside of head immaculate yellowish white; black transverse lines across bases of anterior ventrals, these lines becoming heavier, with intervening black spots posteriorly (fig. 73 bottom).</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BB44A43FFF2FFB0FF329D90FDCCFCD7" blockId="122.[128,654,213,791]" pageId="122" pageNumber="123">The fragment of shed skin is from a small snake of juvenile size. The scales are relatively large, in 10 rows anteriorly, eight rows posteriorly; no keeled scales are discernible; apical pits absent over most of body, but relatively large pits are present on some scales posteriorly on the neck, with paired pits being more common than single ones. The eyes are relatively large; there are two postoculars and 1 + 2 temporals; both postocular scales are in contact with the primary temporal. Anal plate torn.</paragraph>
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The shed skin from Camp 3 is fragmentary but identifiable to genus and may also represent
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, although the possibility of a second congener on the Auyán summit cannot be excluded. Most other
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<emphasis id="B97F9651FFF2FFB0FF6B985AFEE3FBE1" box="[196,306,1034,1057]" italics="true" pageId="122" pageNumber="123">Chironius</emphasis>
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species
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in southern
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(
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,
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, and
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<emphasis id="B97F9651FFF2FFB0FE699877FD9AFBFE" box="[454,587,1063,1086]" italics="true" pageId="122" pageNumber="123">multiventris</emphasis>
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) are differentiated from the material at hand by presence of 12 rows of dorsal scales anteriorly and at midbody.
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has 10 midbody rows of smooth (unkeeled) scales, as do the whole specimen and skin fragment from Auyantepui; these materials, in fact, key out to
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in
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. However, immature
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); the whole specimen (fig. 73) has a color pattern consistent with
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in their Specimens Examined section.
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Roze (1958a: 266; 1966: 95) listed three Auyantepui specimens of
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in Specimens Examined).
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