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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFCDFF94FEE1C54D689B97B5" box="[264,404,1148,1171]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Contia nasus</emphasis>
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269.
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[
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Cuesta Terrón, 1930:176.
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Cuesta Terrón, 1930:175
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176.
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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFCDFF94FD2EC5ED6A2C97D2" bold="true" box="[711,803,1244,1268]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">nov. sin.</emphasis>
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specimen:
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lost;
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83.4.16.38.
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locality:
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Milpas, Durango.
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This snake is characterized by the following combination of characters: fused prefrontals and internasals; upper labials 7, 6 lower labials (some populations with reduced number of these scales); light cinnamon dorsal coloration; with a vertebral line of hexagonal spots that may be bordered by two paravertebral rows of spots. Ventrally it is yellowish, with intercalated black dots. It differs from
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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFCDFF94FC6AC7056D28956B" box="[899,1063,1588,1613]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">C. megalodon</emphasis>
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, the only species with which it could be mistaken, by the light cinnamon dorsal coloration, its larger body size (SVL:
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), and by its distributional range in the Mesa Central, which does not overlap with
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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFCDFF94FBD5C79C6D4095E0" box="[1084,1103,1709,1734]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">C</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFCDFF94FBB6C79C6DEA95E0" box="[1119,1253,1709,1734]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">megalodon</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFCDFF94FED1C7E568DD95C8" bold="true" box="[312,466,1748,1774]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Description:</emphasis>
A species with fused prefrontals and internasals; a loreal; a pointed rostral; nasal pierced by nostril on each side of head; a preocular and two postoculars; hexagonal frontal, contacting internasals; temporal formula 1+2; 7 or 6 upper labials and 6 lower labials; 2 or 2.5 upper labials before eye; genial shields separated by one or two scales; a mean of 123.3 ventrals (116138), and 31.6 subcaudals (2043); 17 rows of smooth scales at midbody; dorsum light cinnamon or beige, with vertebral line of hexagonal spots; venter yellowish, with intercalated black dots.
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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFCCFF95FED1C0A268F6928B" bold="true" box="[312,505,403,429]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Measurements:</emphasis>
Adult specimens of
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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFCCFF95FD15C0A56AB8928B" box="[764,951,404,429]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Conopsis nasus</emphasis>
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average
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snout­vent length (
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),
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in total length (
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), body diameter
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.
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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFCCFF95FED1C0D268BB92DB" bold="true" box="[312,436,483,509]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Variation:</emphasis>
Of all specimens examined only two had prefrontals and internasals divided. Loreals present on both sides of head (75.6%), absent (15.6%), or absent on one side of head (8.7%). Upper labials usually 7 (84.5%), 6 (8.6%), or less than 6 (6.9%). The latter percentage corresponds to a population in Chihuahua. Lower labials 7 (34.5%), 6 (48.3%), or less than 6 (17.2%). Upper labials before eye 3 (13.7%), 2.5 (75.8%) or 2 (10.3%). First pair of genial shields separated by one (51.6%) or two scales (48.4%). Dorsal coloration is cinnamon (44.8%), beige (21%), brown (25%), dark brown (7.7%), or olive green (1.7%); with a vertebral row of hexagonal spots bordered by two paravertebral rows of smaller dots (73.3%), a vertebral row of hexagonal spots on the first third of body and on the other two thirds a tessellated pattern (15.4%), or a vertebral row of hexagonal spots over a light vertebral band (12.9%, variation found in some juveniles). Ventral coloration creamy (87.9%), yellow (9.5%), whitish (1.8%) or gray (0.8%). The venter with dark scattered spots (60.3 %), a row of paired dots (28.05 %), large dots forming a band (1.6%), dots in half circle (2.5%), dots on the external edge of each ventral scale (3.3%), or immaculate (4.1%).
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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFCCFF95FED1C50D68D59770" bold="true" box="[312,474,1084,1110]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Distribution:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFCCFF95FE0FC50D6BAE9773" box="[486,673,1084,1109]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Conopsis nasus</emphasis>
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is distributed in north­central
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(fig. 7); it has been collected in the states of Chihuahua, Aguascalientes, Distrito Federal, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Estado de
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, Michoacan, Morelos, Puebla, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Tlaxcala, Veracruz and Zacatecas, from
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m
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, in xerophilous underbrush, oak, pine, and fir forest. It is usually under rocks or logs during every month of the year, being more abundant from June to September.
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