Fig. 9 in A time relic: a new species of dwarf boa, Tropidophis Bibron, 1840 (Serpentes: Amerophidia), from the Upper Amazon Basin

Fig. 9. Micro-CT images of the dorsal view of the skulls of Tropidophis cacuangoae sp. nov., ♀ (DHMECN 15893, paratype), T. taczanowskyi (Steindachner, 1880) (NMW 14858, lectotype), T. melanurus (Schlegel, 1837) (ZFMK 65041), and Trachyboa boulengeri Peracca, 1910 (ZFMK 98727). Different skull elements are digitally colored and the mandibulae are removed for better visualization. Abbreviations: ECP = ectopterygoid; EXO = exoccipital; F = frontal; MX = maxilla; NA = nasal; P = parietal; PAL = palatine; PFR = prefrontal; PMX = premaxilla; PO = postorbital; PRO = prootic; PT = pterygoid; Q = quadrate; SMX = septomaxilla; SO = supraoccipital; ST = supratemporal.Published as part of Ortega-Andrade, H. Mauricio, Bentley, Alexander, Koch, Claudia, Yánez-Muñoz, Mario H. & Entiauspe-Neto, Omar M., 2022, A time relic: a new species of dwarf boa, Tropidophis Bibron, 1840 (Serpentes: Amerophidia), from the Upper Amazon Basin, pp. 1-107 in European Journal of Taxonomy 854 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.854.2021, http://zenodo.org/record/750132