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CONIOPHANES 



CONIOPHANES IMPERIAL IS (Baird and Girard) 



1855 Taeniophis imperialis Baird and Girard, in Baird, Reptiles of the Boundary: 23, pi. 15, fig. 1. 

 Type-locality: Given as Brownsville, Texas, but recorded as Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico in 

 USNM Catalogue, according to Cochran, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 220, I56I, 216. 



1861 [ Coniochanes ] i mper lal i s — Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., I86I: 74. 



Distribution: Southern Texas to northern Honduras on Caribbean slope. 



Content: Three subspecies, of which two ( imperialis Baird and Girard and copei Hartweg and Oliver) 

 are ex tral im i tal. 



Con iophanes imperialis clavatus (Peters) 



1864 Dromicus f Dromicus ) clavatus Peters, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1864: 388. Type- 

 local i ty: Mex ico. 

 19^7 Coniophanes imperialis clavatus — Ba i ley. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 362: 6. 



Distribution: Low elevations of Caribbean slope, Veracruz, Mexico, to northern Honduras. 



CONIOPHANES JOANAE Myers 



1366 Coniophanes joanae Myers, Copeia, I566: 665, figs. 1-2. Type-locality: Cerro Pirre, Serran'a 

 de Pirre, Darien, Panama, 1440 m. 



Distribution: Highlands of eastern Panama. 



CONIOPHANES PICEIVITTIS Cope 



1870 Coniophanes piceivittis Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 11 (I865): I45. Type-locality: Chihuitan, 



Oaxaca, Mex ico. 

 I87O l.[ach^men_i^J taen iata Peters, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, I865: 876. Type-locality: Mexico. 



Distribution: Guerrero, Mexico to Costa Rica on Pacific slope; central Honduras. Not yet recorded 

 in Guatemala. 



Content: Two subspecies, of which one ( taylor i Hall) is extral i m i tal. 



Con iophanes p i ce i v i tt i s p ice i v i tt i s Cope 



1551 Con iophanes picei vi tt i s p i cei vi tt i s — Hall, Univ. Kansas Sc i . Bull., 34: 208, fig. 3- 

 Distribution! As for species, except Guerrero, Mexico. 



CONIOPHANES SCHMIDT! Baile^ 



1537 Coniophanes schmidti Bailey. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 362: 1. Type-locality: Chiche 

 Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. 



Distribution: Lowlands of Yucatan Peninsula to British Honduras and central El Petin, Guatemala. 



