Key Identification Features
- It usually has between 9 and 13 dark crossbands across the back, sides, and tail, with adjacent white spots.
- These crossbands may be very distinct, or obscured by reddish or yellowish coloration.
- multicarinata is known for aggressive self-defense, and will bite and defecate if handled by humans.
- It has spiny horn-like scales on each side of the head, and its lower labials are blood-red, a feature that gives this species its common names.
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