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Ho
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2015:57 (in Key).
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Although not overlapping with most values of the
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, the two newly collected specimens show similar proportions with the
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. The head length, predorsal length, preanal length, trunk length and snout length are slightly larger than these of the
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(
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). The meristic values are more variable, there are 30 predorsal vertebrae in the
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, versus 35 (
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) and 30 (
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) in two other specimens; 78 preanal vertebrae, versus 69 and 73, respectively; 200 total vertebrae, versus 197 and 204, respectively. The head and lateral-line pores also varies, there are 5 mandibular pores in the
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, versus
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two other specimens; 33 predorsal pores, versus 37 and 32, respectively; 78 preanal pores, versus 71 and 75, respectively. All these differences are considered as individual variation and the diagnosis of the species is revised accordingly. It also notable that one specimen (
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) has a frontal pore, whereas the other two have none. Same situation also found in our
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and the presence of absence of frontal pore is variable in these two species, a unique condition within the genus.
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