Description ¹

Large robust animals. Maximum SVL 96 mm. Head wide and relatively high; snout rather short and broad; rostral, 3 nasals and the first supralabial enter the nostril. Limbs thick, with relatively short and thick digits and broad terminal pads, each with an average of 20 lamellae below. There are 104-145 scales at mid-body. Tail slender, longer than SVL. Dorsal tubercles with weak multiple keels. Color dark gray with a series of darker brownish blotches of varying intensity on dorsum. Tail barred. Venter off-white.

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1. (c) Bibliotheca Alexandrina, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/15643250

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• iNat taxon page
• Animal Diversity Web
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HerpMapper
• The Reptile Database
• VertNet

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