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From: A new, rare, small-ranged, and endangered mountain snake of the genus Elaphe from the Southern Levant

Figure 3

The comparison of preocular scales (red upper, green lower), head pattern and coloration in adult (A–D) and juvenile (E–H) stages of Elaphe quatuorlineata group arranged along the schematic phylogeny: Elaphe druzei sp. nov. from Lebanon (adult) and Israel (juvenile), E. urartica, Turkey (holotype ZDEU 26/2012) and Armenia (juvenile), E. sauromates, Ukraine, and E. quatuorlineata, Croatia and Italy. Photographs by Daniel Jablonski, Marco Antônio Ribeiro-Júnior and Matteo Di Nicola (A, D, E, H), Aziz Avcı (B), Ilya S. Korshunov (F), and Oleg V. Kukushkin (C, G).

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