A new species of Clelia Fitzinger, 1826, is described on the basis of 37 specimens. It differs from all other Clelia by having two loreals and a higher number (21 vs. 19) of dorsal scale rows in the neck region. The species is probably endemic to the Bolivian inter-Andean dry valleys.
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1 September 2005
New Species of Clelia (Colubridae) from the Inter-Andean Dry Valleys of Bolivia
Steffen Reichle,
Dirk Embert
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