Morphological characteristics of the jade-spotted snake

morphological characteristics of the jade-spotted snake
jade-spotted snake

The main reason why the Jade-spotted Elephant Snake is called the Beauty Snake is that the snake's shape is very long and elegant, and its body is not large. The body is about 1 meter long, and its back is mainly purple-gray and gray-brown. There are three black spots on the head; there is a row of dozens of black diamond-shaped spots in the middle of the back, and the center and edges of the diamond-shaped spots are yellow;
The underside of the Jade-spotted Elephant Snake is gray-white, scattered with black spots of varying lengths and alternating with each other. The back of the head is yellow with a typical black inverted "V" shaped overlapping pattern. Preorbital scale 1, postorbital scale 2; temporal scale 2(1)+3(2); upper labial scale 7, 2-2-3 formula, or 8, 3-2-3 or 2-2-4 formula; lower labial scale There are 9 labial scales, the first 4 of which cut into the anterior jaw. The dorsal scales are 23-23-19 rows, smooth; the ventral scales are 181-238; the anal scales are divided into two parts; the lower tail scales are 53-75 pairs.

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