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| Gouveia,Rafaella Vallim; Novelli,Iara Alves; Vieira,Fabiano Matos; Sousa,Bernadete Maria de. |
| Abstract The current study aimed to verify the relationship between the patterns of coloration, the morphometrical features and pholidosis of specimens of Philodryas patagoniensis from Brazil, with the sexual dimorphism of this species. We studied specimens of P. patagoniensis deposited in several herpetological collections from Brazil. A total of 355 specimens were analyzed, of these 145 were males (87 adults and 58 juveniles) and 210 were females (134 adults and 76 juveniles). Adult specimens exhibit sexual dimorphism in snout-vent length, tail length, head length, number of ventral shields, and number of subcaudal shields. The analysis of variance showed that the adult females are significantly longer than adult males, both at snout-vent length and tail... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Morphology; Sexual variability; Philodryadini; Brazilian snakes. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1676-06032017000100205 |
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