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Cope
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Cope,
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in Ferrari­Perez:189.
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(
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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFC4FF9DFEE1C0D66B0592D8" box="[264,522,487,510]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Chionactis diasii acutus</emphasis>
Cope, 1898 (1900)
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:943.
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.
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specimen:
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30552.
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locality:
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Juchitán, Oaxaca. This locality is obviously in error since is out of the known geographic and elevation ranges of the species.
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We propose to restrict the
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locality for
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to: 2 millas E Ixtlán de Juárez (
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91054), since apparently
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made a mistake citing the locality for the specimen he described as from &quot;....Tuchitan, on the Pacific side of the isthmus of Tehuatepec.&quot;. Latter Smith and
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:p.338) pointed that the
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locality for this taxon is Juchitán, Oaxaca. The
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specimen was sent to the
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National Museum by Sumichrast (
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Cope,
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). Our restriction is based on the statement of
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refering the species as inhabiting the temperate highlands of
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. This locality may have been within the sphere of Sumichrast activity and was probably readily accessible to him.
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: This snake is characterized by the following combination of characters: divided internasals and prefrontals; brown dorsal coloration, or some individuals with a grayish dorsum and a vertebral line of elongated hexagonal spots; with tessellated sides, or two paravertebral dark lines. Ventrally it is yellowish or yellow­orange, with no spots or with a row of paired dots on each end of the ventral scales. It differs from
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by having divided prefrontals and internasals, scales fused in the latter two species. The dorsal spot pattern may be similar in the three.
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) compared to the other two species,
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(SVL:
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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFC4FF9DFE92C45E6B2F96AE" box="[379,544,1391,1416]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">C. megalodon</emphasis>
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(SVL:
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);
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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFC4FF9DFCC6C45E6A9B96AE" box="[815,916,1391,1416]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">C. acuta</emphasis>
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differs from
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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFC4FF9DFBDBC45E6DA996AE" box="[1074,1190,1391,1416]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">C. lineata</emphasis>
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by lacking continuous lines along the dorsum and its smaller size (
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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFC4FF9DFC7BC4A66D099696" box="[914,1030,1431,1456]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">C. lineata</emphasis>
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SVL:
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).
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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFC4FF9DFED1C48F68DD96FE" bold="true" box="[312,466,1470,1496]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Description:</emphasis>
A species with divided prefrontals and internasals; loreal scale on each side of head; a pointed rostral; nasal pierced by nostril on each side of head; a preocular and two postoculars; hexagonal frontal, contacting prefrontals; temporal formula 1+2; 7 upper and lower labials; 2.5 upper labials before eye; genial shields separated by one scale; a mean of 123 ventrals (106135) and 31 subcaudals (2842); 17 rows of smooth scales at midbody; dorsum brown,with vertebral line of elongated hexagonal spots; sides of body tessellated; venter yellowish, with no marks.
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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFC4FF9DFED1C7E768F695D6" bold="true" box="[312,505,1750,1776]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Measurements:</emphasis>
Adult specimens of
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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFC4FF9DFD15C7E66AB995D6" box="[764,950,1751,1776]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Conopsis acuta</emphasis>
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average
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snout­vent length (
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), 222.0 mm in total length (
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), body diameter
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.
<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFC4FF9DFEE1C617688A9466" bold="true" box="[264,389,1830,1856]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Variation:</emphasis>
This species generally shows a loreal scale on each side of head (68.8% of examined specimens), or loreal may be missing in some (31.2%). Upper labials usually 77 (86.2%), but some have 66 (10.4%); or 76 (3.4%). Upper labials before eye from 2.5 (69%) to 3 (31%). Lower labials from 7 (65.6%) to 6 (31.1%), one specimen had 57. First pair of genial shields separated by one (75.9%) or two scales (13.8%), or may be fused (10.3%). Dorsal coloration is brown (69%), gray (13.9%), cinnamon (10.3%), or beige (6.8%); with a vertebral row of hexagonal spots (79.3%), or a vertebral row of hexagonal spots and two paravertebral rows of spots, or a vertebral row of large hexagonal spots and three dorsal lines along body, but vertebral line more prominent and forming small hexagons (20.7%). Ventral coloration creamy (69%), yellow (27.6%), or yellowish­gray color (3.4%). The venter has a row of large or small­paired dots (37.9%), dots at the edge of the ventral scales (17.2%), intercalated dots through the whole belly (6.8%), or is immaculate (34.6%).
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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFC7FF9EFED1C3E568D591C8" bold="true" box="[312,474,724,750]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Distribution:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFC7FF9EFE0AC3E56B9591CB" box="[483,666,724,749]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Conopsis acuta</emphasis>
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is distributed in the highlands of south­central
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(fig. 2); it has been collected in the states of Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz, from
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m
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, in xerophilous underbrush,
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<emphasis id="B903EAE7FFC7FF9EFD5AC2156A1C901B" box="[691,787,804,829]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Opuntia</emphasis>
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(prickly pear), pine, pine­oak, and fir forests. It is usually under rocks or litter during most of the year, being more abundant in the months of August, September, and November.
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