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CHIRON lUS 



CHIRONIUS FLAVOLINEATUS (Boettger) 



1885 Herpetodryas f lavol ineatus Boettger, Zeits. fur Naturwiss., 5^! 234. Type-locality: Paraguay. 

 IS')^ Chironius f lavol ineatus — Bailey, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 57^' 13" 



Distribution! Savannas of central and western Bahia, northeastern Mato Grosso, and SSo Paulo, 

 Brazil; Paraguay; central Bolivia. 



CHIRONIUS FLAVOPIgTUS (Werner) 



1505 Herpetodryas car i natus L. van. flavop i eta Werner, Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, 26; 220. Type- 

 locality: Ecuador, and Guayaquil, Ecuador. 

 1960 Chironius flavopictus — Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 122: 5II. 



Distribution: Known under this name only from type-locality and Cabeceras de R'o Congo, Ecuador; 

 possibly occurs in northwestern Peru. 



CHIRONIUS FOVEATUS 



1555 Ch iron i us f oveatus Bailey, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 571' 10, fig. 1. Type-locality: 

 Rio Fortuna, llheus, Bahia, Brazil. 



Distribution: Bahia to Santa Catarina, on Brazilian coast. 



CHIRONIUS FUSCUS (Linnaeus) 



1758 Coluber f useus Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10: 222. Type-locality: Asia (in error). 

 1758 Coluber saturn i nus Linnaeus, SyStema Naturae, Ed. 10: 223. Type-locality: Indiis. 

 I854 Dendroph is v ir id i s Dumaril, Bibron and Dumeril, Erp. Gen., 7' 202. Type-locality! unknown, 

 I860 Herpetodryas sebastus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., 1860: 562. Type-locality: unknown. 

 1876 Herpetodryas holochlorus Cope. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sc I . Phila., (2) 8 (I875): 178. Type-locality: 



Rio MaraHon, Peru. 

 1515 Herpetodryas vicinus Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1515' 660. Type-locality: Andagoya, 



Colomb i a. 

 1929 Ch i ron i us f uscus — Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 4: I6I. 



Distribution; Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guianas, central Brazil, Peru. 



CHIRONIUS GRANDISQUAMIS (Peters) 



1868 Spilotes grand! squamis Peters, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1868: 45I. Type-locality: Costa 



Rica. 

 1951 Chironius grand i squam i s — Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sc i . Bull., Ji: Jd. 



Distribution: Costa Rica, Panama, northwestern Ecuador. 



CHIRONIUS LAEVICOLLIS (Wied) 



1824 Coluber laev icoll i s Wied, Isis von Oken, 1824, heft 6: 666. Type-locality; None givenj Wied, 

 Beitr. Naturges. Bras., 1825, 299, said Fazenda of Muribeca on lower Rio Itabapoana, on 

 boundary between Espirito Santo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 



1555 Ch iron ius laev icoll i s — Bailey, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 57I: 18. 



Distribution: Central Espirito Santo to Parana, Brazil. 



CHIRONIUS MELAS (Cope) 



1886 Herpetodryas melas Cope. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 23: 278. Type-locality: Nicaragua. 

 1951 Chironius melas — Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sc i . Bull., 34: 97. 



Distribution: Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. 



