Key Identification Features
- This bright, distinct patterning sets them apart from other South American snakes.
- They can be distinguished by physical differences in head scalation and the placement of heat pits around the mouth.
- The tail is blunt, rounded, not sharply distinct from the body, and gives a truncated appearance.
- This heavy keeling also makes the anterior and posterior portions of the body appear to belong to distinctly different animals.
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