Canthus (herpetology)

In snakes and amphibians, the canthus, canthal ridge or canthus rostralis,[1] is the angle between the flat crown of the head and the side of the head between the eye and the snout,[2] or more specifically, between the supraocular scale and the rostral scale.

It is defined as a sharp ridge in many viperids, but is rounded in most rattlesnakes, for example.

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