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Five species:
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<emphasis id="78EE165DFFE6FFF7DCCF40DCFEA7B5A5" bold="true" box="[201,323,1451,1476]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="78EE165DFFE6FFF7DD4C40DBFE34B5A5" box="[330,464,1452,1476]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Homalopsis</emphasis>
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can be distinguished from all other Southeast Asian snakes by their keeled and striated scales in 3349 rows at midbody; crescent-shaped valvular nostrils; lower labials posterior to the eye are horizontally divided; and enlarged plates (frontal and parietals) on the crown. Snakes of the genus
<taxonomicName id="8D9AB1CCFFE6FFF7D88D4081FB10B66F" box="[1163,1268,1526,1550]" class="Reptilia" family="Homalopsidae" genus="Cerberus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="78EE165DFFE6FFF7D88D4081FB10B66F" box="[1163,1268,1526,1550]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Cerberus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are the species most likely to be confused with
<emphasis id="78EE165DFFE6FFF7DE0E436BFD73B655" box="[520,663,1564,1588]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
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;
</emphasis>
however,
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<emphasis id="78EE165DFFE6FFF7DF0A436BFC90B655" box="[780,884,1564,1588]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Cerberus</emphasis>
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have fewer than 30 scales rows at midbody and the frontal and parietals are fragmented into small irregular scales.
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="028099C4FFE6FFF7DCCF4311FB9CB73F" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="4A25CA4FFFE6FFF7DCCF4311FB9CB73F" blockId="3.[151,1436,1302,1887]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
<emphasis id="78EE165DFFE6FFF7DCCF4311FE86B61E" bold="true" box="[201,354,1638,1663]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Distribution.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="78EE165DFFE6FFF7DD6F4311FE0BB61F" box="[361,495,1638,1662]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Homalopsis</emphasis>
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ranges from
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(based on an anecdotal record,
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) and probably northeast
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, eastward to Indochina and southward into the Malayan peninsula and the Indonesian Archipelago as far east as Borneo. One specimen has been reported from Makassar, Sulawesi (Rooji 1917) but De Lang &amp;Vogel (2005) could not validate its presence on the island.
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shows the distribution of the five species recognized here. Regional works on
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and
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rarely mention the presence of
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<emphasis id="78EE165DFFE6FFF7D818438BFB40B775" box="[1054,1188,1788,1812]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Homalopsis</emphasis>
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. Neither
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Ahmed
<emphasis id="78EE165DFFE6FFF7D962438AFA78B775" box="[1380,1436,1788,1812]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">et al.</emphasis>
(2009)
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nor
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mention the species in
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and only
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report it from
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, and their account is based solely upon the
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comment.
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