FIGURE 15 in Disentangling vines: a study of morphological crypsis and genetic divergence in vine snakes (Squamata: Colubridae: Ahaetulla) with the description of five new species from Peninsular India

FIGURE 15. Images of Ahaetulla malabarica sp. nov. Images of Holotype BNHS 3586 (CESS090). (a) Head lateral, (b) Head dorsal, (c) Ventral section, (d–f) Everted Hemipenis. Whole specimen (CESS090). Head lateral images of different colour morphs (live), (g) CESS090 from Brahmagiri, (h) CESS144 from Siruvani, (i) CESS143 from Poochipara, (j) CESS090 from Brahmagiri. Image of a live, uncollected individual, (k) Whole animal from Brahmagiri Hills (Images a & b; d & e to scale, other images not to scale).Published as part of Mallik, Ashok Kumar, Srikanthan, Achyuthan N., Pal, Saunak P., D'Souza, Princia Margaret, Shanker, Kartik & Ganesh, Sumaithangi Rajagopalan, 2020, Disentangling vines: a study of morphological crypsis and genetic divergence in vine snakes (Squamata: Colubridae: Ahaetulla) with the description of five new species from Peninsular India, pp. 1-62 in Zootaxa 4874 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4874.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/442351