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; McDiarmid
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1999: 88;
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Spawls
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<emphasis id="B968EADDFF8D380B90A8FAD7F24AFA21" bold="true" box="[151,303,1386,1412]" pageId="24" pageNumber="55">Description.</emphasis>
Snout very prominent, with an acutely angular horizontal keratinised edge on rostral, rostral very large, longer than broad and extending well beyond the lovel of the eyes, ventrally rostral more than half width of head at level of nostrils; frontal crescentic, separated from the nasal by two supraoculars, the lower with its lateral apex between nasal and preocular; eye visible beneath the upper anterior edge of the nasal; nasal suture arising from the second labial;
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X (N1, P, O, O). Scale rows usually 26-24-24; MD 467586 (mean 501.26). L/D ratio 3877. Dark brown to black dorsally, slightly lighter below, with a bright yellow vertebral stripe, three to five scales wide, running from the back of the head to about
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before the tail tip.
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<emphasis id="B968EADDFF8D380B90F8F93FF265F939" bold="true" box="[199,256,1666,1692]" pageId="24" pageNumber="55">Size.</emphasis>
Largest specimen (MZUF 27528 Balad,
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<emphasis id="B968EADDFF8D380B90F8F917F24BF961" bold="true" box="[199,302,1706,1732]" pageId="24" pageNumber="55">Habitat.</emphasis>
Mainly
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deciduous bushland and thicket, but also entering coastal mosaic. Sympatric with
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<emphasis id="B968EADDFF8D380B9165F96EF12FF949" box="[346,586,1747,1772]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="55">Letheobia ataeniata</emphasis>
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on the sandy levees on the west bank of the Juba River (
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).
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<emphasis id="B968EADDFF8D380B90F8F89FF202F899" bold="true" box="[199,359,1826,1852]" pageId="24" pageNumber="55">Distribution.</emphasis>
Southern
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, eastern
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and northeastern
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,
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. (
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).
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<emphasis id="B968EADDFF8D380B90F8F8F7F222F8C1" bold="true" box="[199,327,1866,1892]" pageId="24" pageNumber="55">Localities.</emphasis>
<collectingCountry id="F30B765FFF8D380B916BF8F7F2BBF8C1" box="[340,478,1866,1892]" name="Somalia" pageId="24" pageNumber="55">SOMALIA</collectingCountry>
. Alessandra Island, Gelib MZUF 2222; Balad MZUF 27528; Dinsor MZUF 24678-79; Gelib to Bidi NHCL 1535, MSNM 1960 (
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); Lugh Ferrandi BMNH 98.1.28.13; Mareri (Juba Sugar Project:
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) CAS
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, 225263-65; MZUF 27167-70; Merca [Marka] (
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) MZUT 1744.
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. Garissa &amp; Garsen (
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); Gede NMK 2266; Ithumba BMNH 1963.433-34; Jombeni USNM 22091; Kibwezi BMNH 93.11.21.42; MCZ 18175; Kinna, Lali Hills &amp; Makueni (
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);
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MCZ 40081; NMK 2677;
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BMNH 90.1.20.2; Namanga NMZB 17116; Saka BMNH 1952.1.6.46; Taita ZMB 9246 (
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); Taru BMNH 97.11.17.18; Voi MCZ 40079-80; Watamu (
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Spawls
<emphasis id="B968EADDFF8C380A9212FEADF10CFE8C" box="[557,617,272,297]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="56">et al.</emphasis>
2002
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, photo).
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. Amboni Estate MCZ 48058; Maji Kunuinua Mtn, Mkomazi Game Res. (
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) NMBO 7941; Tanga BMNH 1960.1.6.29; MNHN 1895.132.
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