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Transcription
Hanken,
James
1976
Theories
Hotel Primavera, Oaxaca, Est. Oaxaca, Mexico
12 February Cerro San Felipe - 15 km W La Cumbre :
- only one morph readily distinguishable, usually
with brick-red dorsal stripe (lost to some extent
in the largest specimens)
- large limbst feet
- marked sexual dimorphism of gravid ♀♀'s
much larger than ♂'s w/ mental glands
- belly black w/ white speckling
- 3 gravid ♀'s, the largest of all taken frozen killed
the remaining 20 frozen
- as a whole, this morph is larger in total size
than most others (the few smaller indivs.
are thought young of this morph)
Cerro San Felipe - ♂ 12.4 km W La Cumbre
- apparently same pop. as above
- 20 animals frozen F75-79; 6 left alive,
including 4 gravid ♀'s, 2 ♂'s
Cerro San Felipe - 9 km W La Cumbre
- only seven indivs. found, of apparently
different morph than the two above
- generally smaller body size (can only tell from
mature ♂'s as gravid ♀'s are not present)
- ventral pattern black w/ finer and paler