-
features that
diagnose members of this family, such as the
presence of
hypapophyses only in
anterior trunk, that the
middle and
posterior trunk vertebrae...
-
colored dorsum. The
genus differs from most
colubrid genera in
lacking hypapophyses on
posterior dorsal vertebrae and in
bearing nine
maxillary teeth (the...
- enlarged.
Though not keeled, the
front dorsal vertebrae have
paired hypapophyses at
their undersides, just as with
Streptospondylus altdorfensis. Sadleir...
- an egg. Once swallowed, the egg is
punctured by
specialized vertebral hypapophyses which extend into the esophagus. The s**** is then
regurgitated in one...
- series. All the
cervicals but the most
posterior and axis/atlas have
hypapophyses and
those triangular neural spines; all
characteristics that have been...
-
three times the size of its head. The egg is slit open by
vertebral hypapophyses which extend into the esophagus. The
collapsed empty s**** is regurgitated...
- rounded; the
subcaudals occur in two rows. The
vertebral column has
hypapophyses developed throughout. Dorsally, this
snake is blackish-brown, with a...
- lack
embryonic growth. It has
special adaptations such as
vertebral hypapophyses,
projections of the
cervical vertebrae, that jut into the oesophagus...
- and 100-fold. In the
African and
Indian egg-eating snakes,
there are
hypapophyses (protrusions) on the
vertebrae which are used to
break swallowed eggs...
-
Streptospondylus has been
diagnosed by the
unique bifurcation (split) of the
hypapophyses (processes
which extend from the
lower surface of a vertebra) in the...
