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 CONOPHIS 



Conoph is 1 i neatus concolor Cope 



1867 Conophis concolor Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., 1866: 318. Type-locality: 



"Yucatan", restricted to Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, by Smith and Taylor, Univ. 



Kansas Sc i .- Bull., 33. 1950. 3.52- 



iqOO Conophis lineaticeps Cope, Ann, Rept. U. S, Nat. Mus,, I858: IO94. Type-locality: 



Peten, Guatemala. 



1541 Conoph is 1 ineatus concolor — Smith, Jour. Wash. Acad. Sc i . , 31" 122. 



1963 Conophis lineatus concolor — V/ellman, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 15: 270. 



Distribution; Yucatan Peninsula, northern Guatemala, northern third of British Honduras, 

 and questionable record for northeastern Honduras. 



Conoph is 1 ineatus dunn i Smith 



1941 Conophis lineatus similis Smith (preoccupied by similis Bocourt. 1886), Jour. Wash. Acad. 



Sci., 3I: 123. Type-locality: Managua, Nicaragua. 



1942 Conoph is lineatus dunn i Smith (substitute name for similis Smith), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



92: 395" Type-locality: Managua, Nicaragua. 

 1963 Conoph is 1 i neatus dunn i — Wellman, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., I5: 262. 



Distribution: Semiarid habitats from sea level to 1000 m from Cuilco Valley in western 

 Guatemala, El Peten, and British Honduras to northeastern and southern Honduras, western 

 Nicaragua and northwestern Costa Rica. 



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Fig. 4. Variations in color pattern of £. 1_. dunn i from different parts of its range (from 

 Wellman, I963). 



CONOPHIS NEVERMANNI Dunn 



1937 Conophis nevermanni Dunn, Copeia, 1937' 214. Type-locality: R'o Poas de Aserri ( a few mi south 



of San Jose), Costa Rica. 

 1963 Conophis nevermanni — Wellman, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1$, 2/2. 



Distribution: Pacific coast of Honduras and northwestern Costa Rica; Meseta Central of Costa Rica. 



CONOPHIS PULCHER Cope 



1869 Conophis pulcher Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I869: 3O8. Type-locality: Peten or 

 Verapaz, Guatemala. 



1886 Conoph i s pulcher var similis Bocourt, Miss. Sci. Mex., Rept.: 6*7. pl- 38, fig. 6. Type- 

 locality: unknown} restricted to Tonali, Chiapas, by Smith and Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. 



Bull., 33, 1950, 326. 



1941 Conophis pulcher plaqosus Smith, Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci., '}!: 121. Type-locality: Tonal^, 



Ch iapas. 

 1963 Conophis pulcher — Wellman, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1$: 274. 



Distribution; Pacific coastal region of Chiapas, Mexico, into Guatemala; southeastern highlands 

 and dry valley of central and eastern Guatemala; Caribbean lowlands of Honduras south to region of 

 Teguc igalpa. 



