About the morphology of Pallas coluber elaphe dione in Samara and Ulyanovsk regions

At Pallas coluber Elaphe dione from the Samara and Ulyanovsk regions external morphological characters (L.corp., L.cd., L.corp./L.cd., Sq., Ventr., Scd., A., Lab., Temp.) are investigated. To these characters comparative intrapopulation analysis of males and females, and also interpopulation - separately for males and separately for females - is carried out. In particular, it is shown (except for a long time known sexual distinctions of characters L.corp., L.cd., L.corp./L.cd., Ventr. and Scd.): males and females from one population can authentically differ on an average of temporal scutes in the second row; «the Samara» colubers differ from «Ulyanovsk» smaller average values Ventr. and Scd. The find of the male-albino in the Samara region is described.