Abstract
A new species of Omoadiphas is described from the Sierra de Agalta, Olancho, Honduras. Three species are now known in the genus. The new species differs from O. aurula in number of subcaudal, supralabial, infralabial, and postocular scales, in color and pattern, and in having the posterior nasal scale in contact with the prefrontal scale. It differs from O. texiguatensis (known only from a subadult female) in having fewer subcaudals and the dark brown dorsolateral stripe involving all of scale rows two and three on each side of the body.References
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