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REPTILIA: SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE jl^ ^ ^ ^ AMASTRIDIUM 



Prepared by Larry David Wilson, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana 

 AMASTRIDIUM Cope 



1861 Amastridium Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I860: 37O. Type-species: Amastridium vellferum 



Cope. 

 I858 Fie ischmannia Boettger, Katalog der Rept i 1 ien-Sammlung im Museum der Senckenberg ischen 



Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main, 2: 65. Type-species: Fie ischmannia 



obscura Boettger. 

 iq03 Mimometopon Werner. Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., 22: 349, pi. 1, figs. 3-5. Type-species: 



M imometopon sapper! Werner. 

 130s PhrydoDS Boulenqer. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., {7) 15: 453. Type-spec i es: Phrydops melas Boulenger. 



Distribution: As for single known species. 



Content; One species. 



AMASTRIDIUM VELIFERUM Cope 



I86I Amastridium veliferum Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I860: 37O. Type-locality; Cocuyas de 



Veraguas, N. Grenada, which is Cocuyas, Panama. 

 I898 Fie i schmann ia obscura Boettger, Katalog der Rept il ien-Sammlung im Museum der Senckenberg ischen 



Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main, 2: 69. Type-locality: San Jos^, Costa 



Rica. 

 1903 Mimometopon sapper 1 Werner. Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., 22: 349, pi. 1, figs. 3-5. Type-locality: 



Qua temala. 

 iqOS Phrydops melas Boulenger. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 15^ ^5*» Type-locality; Cariblanco, Costa 



Rica. 

 1925 Amastr i d ium sapper i — Dunn, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 65: !• 

 1931 Phydrops [TicJ melas — Dunn. Copeia, 1931: I63. 



Distribution; Atlantic and Pacific slopes from Nuevo Leon and Chiapas, Mexico, through Guatemala, 

 Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. 



