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Ameiva orcesi J. Peters 



Ameiva orcesi J. Peters, 1964, Bull. So. California Acad. Sci., vol. 63, 

 p. 123. X km. NE of Abdon Calderon, Azuay Prov., Ecuador 

 (USNM 149655, male). 



Range: Valley of the Rio Jubones, Azuay Prov., Ecuador. 



Ameiva septemlineata A. Dumeril 



Ameiva septemlineata A. Dumeril, 1851, Cat. Meth. Coll. Reptiles, p. 



114. "Amerique meridionale" (PM 4198). 

 Ameiva sexscutata Giinther, 1859b, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 402. 



Andes of Western Ecuador (BM 1946.8.28.35). 

 Range: Moister areas of coastal area of Ecuador, from Guayaquil 



northward. 



Genus AMPHISBAENA Linnaeus 



1. A single annulus at midbody contains less than 60 segments; median ventral 



segments not longer than broad 2 



A single annulus at midbody contains more than 60 segments; median ventral 

 segments longer than broad alba 



2. Abdomen as densely colored as dorsum; 190-205 bodyannuli; 23-27 tail annuli. 



Juliginosa varia 



Abdomen usually nearly immaculate, much lighter than dorsum; 204-215 



body annuU; 26-30 tail annuli Juliginosa bassleri 



Amphisbaena alba Linnaeus 



Amphisbaena alba Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., vol. 1, p. 229. 



"America" (RMS). 

 Range: Tropical South America. (No good Ecuadorian records are 



known.) 



Amphisbaena fuliginosa bassleri Vanzolini 



Amphisbaena fuliginosa bassleri Vanzolini, 1951, Bull. Mus. Comp. 



Zool., vol. 106, no. 1, p. 61. Roaboya, Loreto, Peru (AMNH 56606, 



male). 

 Range : Upper Amazonian basin of Peru and Ecuador. 



Amphisbaena fuliginosa varia Laurenti 



Amphisbaena varia Laurenti, 1768, Synopsin Reptilium, p. 66. Barro 



Colorado Is., Panama (MCZ 22070, neotype, Vanzolini, 1951, 



Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 106, no. 1, p. 61). 

 Range : Pacific Coast of Ecuador and Colombia ; Panama to Villavi- 



cencio, Colombia, in Amazonian South America; east to near 



Trinidad in Venezuela. 



