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Counting scales

Here I use some pictures I found on the internet. Clicking on the image links you to the original site.

 

http://people.whitman.edu/~clarkedn/layout/images/scalediagram.png

 

 

The next picture shows the way to count dorsal rows. Row number 9 is the middorsal row.

 

Dorsal scale counts for snakes

The first ventral scale to count is the first one that touches a scale belonging to the dorsal row. The last one is the one touching the anal scale(s).