Morphological Variation in a Population of the Snake, Tantilla gracilis Baird and Girard

by Laurence M. Hardy; Charles J. Cole

Subcaudals

Females have from 37 to 47 (mean, 42.0 ± 0.20; N = 79) subcaudals; males have from 43 to 55 (mean, 48.4 ± 0.23; N = 109; [Fig. 3]). Of the 187 specimens examined, 13 (7.0%) have the last pair of subcaudals fused. One specimen has left subcaudal 28 fused with both adjacent subcaudals (also fused) on the right. While reading proof we found two omissions in [Fig. 3]; there should be illustrated two males with 43 subcaudals and three males with 44 subcaudals.