Pareas stanleyi (Boulenger, 1914)

Guo, Yuhong, Wang, Guangli & Rao, Dingqi, 2020, Scale microornamentation of five species of Pareas (Serpentes, Pareidae) from China, Zootaxa 4742 (3), pp. 565-572 : 569

P. stanleyi

( Fig. 3 ):

1. The top of the arcs is round and blunt; the arc mouth is recessive; and the opening of the arcs generally contains two side-by-side pores. 2. The arc mouth faces two rows or one row of neatly arranged pores, and three rows also can be seen. 3. The pores in the arc are mostly arranged in two rows or one row. 4. The multiple wavy lines are relatively neat, but there are certain fluctuations; in each field of vision, there are many groups of such lines; those in each group are not parallel to those in the other groups, but they generally do not intersect. 5. From the inner of the arc of one line to the top of the arc of another line, there were approximately 12–16 neatly arranged pores.

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FIGURE 3. Microornamentation of the dorsal scales of P. stanleyi: upper (×2000), below (×10000)