taxonID	type	description	language	source
0B8C54CB8DD35EF09CCDF2E8708B9B88.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. A species of Apostolepis with the following characters: (1) 15 / 15 / 15 dorsal scales; (2) preocular present, contacting nasal; (3) loreal absent; (4) temporals 1 + 0 or absent; (5) supralabials six, 2 nd- 3 rd entering orbit; (6) infralabials 6 - 7, 1 st- 4 th in contact with first pair of chinshields; (7) ventrals 219 - 244 (219 - 244 in males, 230 - 242 in females); (8) subcaudals 21 - 33 (28 - 33 in males, 21 - 26 in females), cloacal plate divided; (9) dorsal ground coloration uniformly red or orange with black markings; (10) ventral pattern uniformly yellow or red; (11) first 3 - 6 vertebrals black, nuchal collars and dorsal stripes absent; (12) distal black caudal blotch overlapping last 9 - 15 vertebrals and 7 - 11 subcaudals; (13) terminal scale white or bicolored black dorsally, white ventrally; (14) supralabial blotch large or small, up to four supralabial scales wide; (15) white blotch on rostral vestigial or absent; (16) SVL 390 - 600 mm, tail length 33 - 60 mm, tail is 8 - 10 % of total length and SVL is 90 - 92 % of total length.	en	Entiauspe-Neto, Omar M., Koch, Claudia, Harvey, Michael B., Colli, Guarino R., Guedes, Thais B. (2021): Redescription of Apostolepis ambiniger (Peters, 1869) (Serpentes: Dipsadidae: Elapomorphini). Vertebrate Zoology 71: 231-251, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/vz.71.e65097, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/vz.71.e65097
