“…Comparisons were made with museum specimens from Venezuela (Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Guanare: MCNG 1042, Museo de Biología Universidad Central de Venezuela: MBUCV 1836, MBUCV 7193, MBUCV 7189), Surinam (Naturalis Biodiversity Center; RMNH.RENA.20768), as well as Brazil (Museu Emilio Goeldi MPEG 27428), and information from the literature on animals from Venezuela [88], Guyana [89], Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil [23,24]. We collected the following meristic information: the number of dorsal scales at the mid-body, number of subcaudal scales, number of ventral scales, number of ocular scales (average of the number of scales around each eye), number of supralabial scales (average from both sides), number of infralabial scales (average from both sides), number of suborbitalia scales (scales simultaneously in contact with supralabials and infra-orbitals; often called lorilabials), number of dorsal blotches from the neck to the tail (excluding the head) in the back and sides (blotches in contact were counted as different blotches), and number of blotches in contact with other blotches.…”