Sure thing!



I didn't notice it before, but it IS possible to count the supralabials in the corn pic --



True. However, the cropped photo you posted cuts off at least one of the corn's supralabials. The photo does show, though, which supralabials enter the ocular orbit. That's the important part!



Unfortunately, we didn't have view-from-above pics to compare in this case.



True, again. But we did get a number of good dorso-lateral views that provided nearly as helpful a look.



That could be very helpful in some circumstances -- but not visible in the pics we had available.



Sure it is! Here's how: The number of scale rows at mid-body can be determined by counting to the mid-dorsal scale row, multiplying that number by two, and subtracting one. I come up with 21 scale rows on the "questionable" animal.



However, this is also not necessarily visible in pics. Here's a pic I posted earlier to demonstrate. Do these scales look especially smooth, or weakly keeled?



Well, not in that photo. Some of the others that were posted had enough detail to determine that they were smooth with a high degree of certainty.



Hope this helps

-Cole

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