Table 2.

. Scale counts and measurements of species of Imantodes from Ecuador. Range (first line) and mean ± SD (second line) are presented when appropriate. Sample size is presented in parentheses if different from that in heading.

Character	Imantodes cenchoa N = 42	Imantodes inornatus N = 6	Imantodes lentiferus N = 30	Imantodes chocoensis sp. n. N = 7
Longitudinal scale rows on neck	17	17	15–17 15.07 ± 0.37	17
Longitudinal scale rows at midbody	17	17	15	17
Longitudinal scale rows anterior to cloaca	17	13–15 13.67 ± 1.03	15	17
Ventrals	249–280 262.62 ± 6.22	203–219 210.67 ± 5.99	216–237 226.80 ± 5.03	232–251 243.14 ± 5.84
Subcaudals	155–189 (37) 165.95 ± 8.01	109–126 (5) 117.80 ± 6.18	130–151 (27) 139.85 ± 5.89	140–161 (6) 151.83 ± 7.41
Anals	2	1–2 1.17 ± 0.41	1	1
Anterior temporals	1–3 2.13 ± 0.51	1–2 1.08 ± 0.29	1	1–2 1.43 ± 0.51
Posterior temporals	2–5 2.80 ± 0.53	1–2 1.92 ± 0.29	1–3 2.07 ± 0.36	2
Loreals	1	1	1	0
Preoculars	1–3 1.36 ± 0.53	1–2 1.25 ± 0.45	1–2 1.03 ± 0.18	1
Postoculars	1–4 2.11 ± 0.38	2–3 2.08 ± 0.29	1–2 1.81 ± 0.39	2–3 2.43 ± 0.51
Supralabials	7–9 7.99 ± 0.33	8	7–9 8.05 ± 0.34	9
Infralabials	7–12 9.92 ± 0.85	9–11 10.00 ± 0.60	9–12 10.68 ± 0.60	12–15 13.21 ± 0.80
Genials	2	2	2 (28)	2
Head length/width	1.35–1.80 1.56 ± 0.11	1.29–1.62 1.51 ± 0.13	1.37–1.91 1.62 ± 0.14	1.54–1.71 1.63 ± 0.07
Tail length/Total length	0.28–0.33 (37) 0.30 ± 0.01	0.27–0.30 (5) 0.28 ± 0.01	0.28–0.34 (27) 0.31 ± 0.01	0.29–0.32 (6) 0.31 ± 0.01
Maximum SVL (cm)	107.90	64.00	70.30	74.40
Maximum Total length (cm)	152.10	91.50	101.40	107.50