Two new species of Boaedon from Ethiopia and Somalia, with a review of the species of East Africa Author Hallermann, Jakob Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Zoologisches Museum Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King Platz 3, D- 20146 Hamburg. Author Hawlitschek, Oliver Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland text Zootaxa 2025 2025-01-13 5569 1 119 137 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5569.1.4 journal article 307790 10.11646/zootaxa.5569.1.4 0282aec7-1d96-44e1-a8d9-9a6bdfe6ba04 1175-5326 14704080 0B9CB2FF-4BD1-4B9F-9A7C-979F6897E67D

TABLE 3. Morphometric (in mm) and meristic character comparison of Boaedon broadleyi sp. nov. available material, X: present, –: absent or missing

Examined material	ZMH R08485 holotype	MNHN 4342 paratype	ZMH R08486 paratype	ZMH R11333 paratype	ZMH R11341 paratype	ZMH R11342 paratype	ZFMK 16231 paratype	ZFMK 16232 paratype	ZFMK 16293 paratype	ZFMK 16294 paratype	ZFMK 19159 paratype	ZFMK 16299 paratype	MNHN 1905.194
Sex SVL	Female 1196	Female 615	Male 732	Female 713	Male 591	Female 646	Female 635	Female 688	Female 660	Female 560	650	Male 600	Juvenile 236	560–1196 X 714.1, n:8
														591–732 X 641, n:3
Tail length SVL/TL	116 10.3	95 6.5	130 5.6	87 8.2	120 4.9	80 8.1	93 6.8	95 7.2	86 7.7	86 6.5	96 6.8	120 5.0	28.9 8.2
MSR	29	33	31	29	29	29	29	29	29	27	29	27	29	27–33, X 29.25 n:8 27–31 X: 29 n3
Ventral scales (V)	243	232	224	223	191	240	232	231	240	229	231	210	225	223–240 X 233.75, n: 8 191–224, X 208.3
Subcaudals (SC)	53	55	63	53	63	52	47	51	49	45	54	59	42
V/SC Supralabials (entering eye)	4.6 8	4.2 8	3.5 8	3.5 8	3.0 7	4.6 8	5.0 8	4.5 8/9	4.9 8/9	5.1 8	4.3 8	3.6 8	5.4 8
Infralabials (touch 1st chin shields)	9/10	9/10	8	10	8/10	8	9	10	10	9	9	9	9
Loreal length	4.5	3	3.3	3.3	4.5	2.5	3.3	2.8	2.9	3.2	3.1	2.8	1.0
Loreal height	1.6	1.3	1.4	1.5	1.6	1.1	1.5	1.5	1.3	1.3	1.8	1.8	0.7
Loreal L/H ratio	2.81	2.3	2.4	2.2	2.8	2.3	2.2	1.9	2.2	2.5	1.7	1.6	1.5
Preocular Preocular touch frontal	2 x	2 x	2 x	2 x	2 x/-	2 x	2 x	2 x	2 x	2 x	2 x	2 x	2 x
Postocular Supralabial touch eye	2 3	2 3	2 2	2 3	2 3	2 2	2 2	2 2	2 3	2 2	2 3	2 2	2 2
Parietal length equal to distance frontal to rostral	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x