CHECK LIST N. AMER. AMPH. REPT. 87 



COLUBRIDAE (FAMILY) 



Carphophis (GENUS) 



Gervais, D'Orbigny's Diet. Univ. Hist. Nat., 

 Vol. 3, 1843, p. 191 



type: amoena 

 WORM-SNAKES 



Carphophis amoena amoena (Say) 

 Coluber amoenus Say 



Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., Vol. 4, Pt. 2, 1825, p. 237. 

 Carphophh amoena amoena Blanch ard 



Papers Mieh. Acad. Sci. Arts Letters, Vol. 4, 1924, p. 527. 

 Carphophiops amoenus Cope 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 735, fig. 151. 



TYPE locality: Pennsylvania. 



range: Connecticut to New York, south to Florida, and west 

 into the Appalachian Mountains. 



Carphophis amoena helenae (Kennicott) 



Celuta helenae Kennicott 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, p. 100. 

 Carphophis amoena helenae Blanch ard 



Papers Mich. Acad. Sci. Arts Letters, Vol. 4, 1924, p. 527. 



type locality: Monticello, Mississippi. 



range: Central Illinois south to Mississippi, east to northwest 



Alabama, the Tennessee Valley to eastern Tennessee, West 



Virginia and eastern Ohio. 



Carphophis amoena vermis (Kennicott) 

 Celuta vermis Kennicott 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, p. 99. 

 Carphophis amoena vermis Blanch ard 



Papers Mich. Acad. Sci. Arts Letters, Vol. 4, 1924, p. 527. 

 Carphophiops vermis Cope 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 737, fig. 152. 



type locality: Missouri. 



range: Southeastern Nebraska and central Missouri through 

 eastern Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kansas and Texas. 



