Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics
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Identifier: venomsvenomousan00calm (find matches)
Title: Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Calmette, A. (Albert), 1863-1933 Austen, E. E. (Ernest Edward), 1867-1938
Subjects: Venom Serpents Toxins Antitoxins
Publisher: London, J. Bale, sons & Danielsson
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
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black and yellow, and separated by narrow interspacesof the ground colour; head dark brown above, with a j^-shapedlight marking, the transverse bar between the eyes ; belly whitish,spotted with brown or black. Total length, 1,190 milbmetres ; tail 110. Habitat: Southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina. (8) L. nemviedii (known as the U)-i(fa in Brazil; fig. 70).—Snout obtusely pointed; supraocular large, separated from itsfellow by G—9 longitudinal series of scales ; H or 9 supralabials ;scales very strongly keeled, in 21—27 rows ; 168—182 ventrals ;41—53 subcaudals. Colour yellowish or pale brown, with dark brown black-edgedspots ; the spots on the back form a single series or a doublealternating series ; a dark spot on the snout; a pair of dark bandsfrom the vertex to the nape, and another from the eye to the angleof the mouth ; belly yellowish, more or less powdered with brown. Total length, 770 millimetres ; tail 120. Habitat: Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina. 116 )ENOMS
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Fig. 10.— LacJiesis nciiwicdii (known as the Lnilii in Brazil) (After Lacerda.) THE PL-IXC I IM. SPECIES E JOTSONOES SNAKES 117 (9) L. annnodijtoides.—Snout tiuned up, in the shape of a wart ;two series of scales between the eye and the labials ; scales in 23or 25 rows, vety strongly keeled; 149—160 ventrals; 30—38 pairsof subcaudals. Colour pale brown, with large brown black-edged spots orcross-bands, which may alternate and form a zigzag band; a darkstreak behind the eye ; belly yellowish, spotted with brown. Total length, 460 millimetres ; tail 55. Habitat: North-eastern Patagonia and Argentina. (10) L. xayithogrammus.—Head elongate, snout short ; scalesin 27 rows, feebly keeled; 19() ventrals ; 54 subcaudals. Colour very dark olive, with a yellow zigzag line on each sidefrom the head to the base of the tail ; the angular parts encloserhombic spaces and lateral triangles; top of head black, with apair of undulating yellow bands from the nape to the vertex ;a brigh
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