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Ungaliophis
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<paragraph id="8CD102EDA346BE1318B7DBCB9EB9C514" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">Material examined.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="BC09E0400FB04659EBB58F99C22D6953" class="Reptilia" family="Xenopeltidae" genus="Ungaliophis" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ungaliophis continentalis" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="717" rank="species" species="continentalis">
<emphasis id="26DCC5632A4CB45403945E5548723341" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">Ungaliophis continentalis</emphasis>
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, 1880 (UMMZ 190698).
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<paragraph id="E44AB98E8F91A8A03464BDFFD2EF854C" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">Description (Figs 124-127).</paragraph>
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.
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Centrum as long as wide (but probably due to the juvenile / subadult ontogenetic stage of the individual); cotyle and condyle slightly depressed; neural arch slightly depressed; posterior median notch of the neural arch deep; neural spine of medium height, located at the posterior half of the neural arch; prezygapophyseal accessory processes vestigial to short; hypapophyses disappearing posteriorly to V 50; haemal keel indistinct (but probably due to the juvenile stage of the specimen); paracotylar foramina absent.
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<emphasis id="AEAC4A0736558FAFCFF6514592DC3BD0" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">Figure 124.</emphasis>
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:
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<emphasis id="11E6F8374F9D524180C3512292B223C6" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">Ungaliophis continentalis</emphasis>
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(UMMZ 190698), trunk vertebrae.
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<paragraph id="4CCBCB825A329B3863A71FDD272103E8" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">
<emphasis id="F5F54CD599352EBE8D59F0CABD9F3971" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">Figure 125.</emphasis>
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:
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<emphasis id="0EF5B6B9E92133C3A6F450B1222080AC" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">Ungaliophis continentalis</emphasis>
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(UMMZ 190698), trunk and cloacal vertebrae.
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<emphasis id="DA2CF831E2E7C04BF390E4EE1B20012A" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">Figure 126.</emphasis>
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:
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<emphasis id="C9D0F7FFE8D4A6B841545602A45F4D11" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">Ungaliophis continentalis</emphasis>
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(UMMZ 190698), cloacal and anterior caudal vertebrae.
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<emphasis id="2AD90970CD5EC008EA011AE3A96D532A" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">Figure 127.</emphasis>
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:
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<emphasis id="F62BDD613F18E680D5CF6238B4B5B822" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">Ungaliophis continentalis</emphasis>
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(UMMZ 190698), caudal vertebrae.
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Note that the skeleton described above belonged (as indicated among other features by its very small absolute dimensions and relatively broad neural canal) to a subadult specimen and this is the reason of the relative shortness of its vertebrae. Nevertheless, the few published figures of
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vertebrae already attest the dependence of the elongation of the centrum to ontogeny: the trunk vertebrae of
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<emphasis id="ECB39CE7B10BA82EC24CA3472EA1AF07" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">Ungaliophis continentalis</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="76972009C086D0C2D473D525900E6391" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">Ungaliophis panamensis</emphasis>
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Schmidt, 1933, illustrated by
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: figs 9B and 8A, respectively), that are characterized by elongate centra, apparently represented adult snakes. Indeed, a juvenile female of
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<emphasis id="37503611D3A71FC292968D0AF1524DB6" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">U. panamensis</emphasis>
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figured by
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: fig. 7A) possesses a shorter centrum. Furthermore, according again to
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, the shape and prominence of the haemal keel of the trunk vertebrae of
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spp. is also subjected to variation: it can be discernible in large (&gt;600 mm in total length) individuals but almost invisible in smaller individuals of
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<emphasis id="E87F0D4F8A6D8571430E438A12D66F1D" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">U. panamensis</emphasis>
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, and it was almost absent in one adult individual of
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<emphasis id="5D41D46E8F2A00901DA3DDD1E50DE147" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">U. continentalis</emphasis>
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. In any case, caution should be paid when interpreting these terminologies, as
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could have a different sense of the term haemal keel, confined perhaps solely to dorsoventrally high structures, judging from a posterior trunk vertebra with a wide haemal keel (
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: fig. 11) that in the caption he described as showing the &quot;absence of any trace of the haemal keel&quot;.
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<emphasis id="9F04D8E78B5A8D866A243C834917C6F0" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">
<emphasis id="9559895BFBD8414AB949CB2B8FFA0C54" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">Trunk</emphasis>
/
<emphasis id="E49719BBA458E012BEBBEB72AB206493" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">caudal transition</emphasis>
</emphasis>
. A short hypapophysis is present in the last trunk and (gradually diminishing in size) in cloacal vertebrae. In caudal vertebrae, this is replaced by a distinct (although moderately developed) haemal keel; the keel disappears in the last caudal vertebrae.
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<paragraph id="866107DAEF89960137A69728D77158A5" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">
<emphasis id="5574BB55508E2C9FB802FE3A52487F68" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">
<emphasis id="A7D8852370F8BA4EECCD5F41B9EE04BB" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">Number of vertebrae</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis id="416DC7DB1359E7B7715CD9399C2D0249" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">Ungaliophis continentalis</emphasis>
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(UMMZ 190698): 275 (224+3+48) including a final fusion.
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Data from literature and unpublished data from personal communications:
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<emphasis id="3B422C95EEE83EEDFBB762ADB2ACB84C" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">Ungaliophis continentalis</emphasis>
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: 238 trunk vertebrae plus 50 cloacal and caudal vertebrae plus a final fusion (NMNH 344819; Krister Smith, unpublished data, personal communication to GLG);
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<emphasis id="446FF82BCAB2AABBD8EC329241B51FF8" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="717">Ungaliophis panamensis</emphasis>
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: 255 trunk vertebrae plus 49 cloacal and caudal vertebrae plus a final fusion (NMNH 209215; Krister Smith, unpublished data, personal communication to GLG).
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