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, Fig.2)
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, fig. 14, 1960: 20;
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McDiarmid
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1999: 26
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—
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A member of the
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<emphasis id="1DA5EAC6FFF4FFD3FE7A8588424DB2EB" box="[495,783,1477,1502]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Leptotyphlops scutifrons</emphasis>
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group with 12 scale rows around the tail. The rostral is broad, resembling that of
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L. s.
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rather than
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but is more tapered posteriorly. This appears to be the smallest form in the
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complex, the
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being the largest known specimen.
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<emphasis id="1DA5EAC6FFF4FFD3FF538670401CB162" bold="true" box="[198,350,1597,1623]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Description.</emphasis>
Body cylindrical, with head and neck broadened and flattened, the short tail tapers abruptly to a small terminal spine.
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<paragraph id="2F6E36D4FFF4FFD3FF5386C043B4B0D2" blockId="41.[151,1436,1477,2023]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Snout rounded, frontal fused with rostral, rostral broad (0.58–0.59 head width, mean = 0.59), wedgeshaped and about twice the width of the supranasals and extending well beyond the level of the eyes; a distinct preoral groove present ventrally. Behind rostral, upper lip bordered by the infranasal (nostril midway between rostral and supralabial along nasal suture), a small anterior supralabial with width along lip equal to that of infranasal, large ocular with the small eye at the upper anterior edge, and moderate to tall posterior supralabial. Supraoculars pentagonal, anteriorly wedged between supranasal and ocular, posteriorly wedged between rostral and hexagonal postfrontal, which is smaller than a supraocular and the hexagonal interparietal and interoccipital. Parietals oblique, slightly larger than the fused occipitals, in contact with the posterior supralabials. Temporal single. No mental, four infralabials.</paragraph>
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Body covered with 14 rows of smooth, imbricate, subequal scales, reduction to 12 scale rows on the tail (
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FMNH 168829) takes place just posterior to the subtriangular cloacal shield. Middorsals 206–212 (n = 2); subcaudals 24–25.
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Total length/diameter ratio 43.5–58.1 (
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); total length/tail ratio 9.3–13.0 in males,
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females (
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).
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<paragraph id="2F6E36D4FFF7FFD0FF53812D4589B64F" blockId="42.[151,1436,152,738]" box="[198,1227,352,378]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Dorsum golden brown, venter lighter with white-bordered scales, chin and throat white.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="1DA5EAC6FFF7FFD0FF5381CA4042B694" bold="true" box="[198,256,391,417]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Size.</emphasis>
Largest specimen (
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,
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)
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.
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<emphasis id="1DA5EAC6FFF7FFD0FF5381E2406FB6FC" bold="true" box="[198,301,431,457]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Habitat.</emphasis>
Savanna below
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, a mosaic of East African evergreen bushland and secondary
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wooded grassland, but now largely converted to cultivation steppe.
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<emphasis id="1DA5EAC6FFF7FFD0FF5381B24025B52C" bold="true" box="[198,359,511,537]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Distribution.</emphasis>
Northern shores of Lake Tanganyika and the Ruzizi valley in the eastern
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and western
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,
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(
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<emphasis id="1DA5EAC6FFF7FFD0FF5382024004B55C" bold="true" box="[198,326,591,617]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Localities.</emphasis>
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(
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). Baraka (
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); Kabunambo, Kagando, Luberizi (
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); Luvingi (
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); Makobola (
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); Runingo (
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) MCZ 57459; Uvira (
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,
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) FMNH 168829; MCZ 53261.
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.
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&amp; Rumonge (
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,
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).
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