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REPTILIA: SERPENTES : COLUBRIDAE * "^ * * DREPANOIDES 



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Prepared by Joseph R. Bailey, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 

 DREPANOIDES Dunn 



I856 Drepanodon Peracca (preoccupied by Drepanodon Nesti, 1826), Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. 



Torino, 11 (231): 3- Type-species: Cloel ia anomala Jan. 

 1528 Drepano i des Dunn (substitute name for Drepanodon Peracca), Bull. Antivenin Inst. Amer,, 2: 22. 



Type-species: Cloel ia anomala Jan. 

 1541 Pseudoclelia Rendahl and Vestergren, Ark. for Zool., 33* (5)' 10. Type-species: Pseudoclel ia 



guttata Rendahl and Vestergren. 



Distribution: As for single species. 



Content: One species. 



Comment: There is a possibility that the species Arrhyton quenselii Andersson, I5OI, belongs here, 

 but it is omitted until additional information on the species is available. Drepanodon eatoni 

 Ruthven is a synonym of Oxyrhopus marcapa tae Boulenger. 



DREPANOIDES ANOMALUS (jan) 



I863 Cloel ia anomala Jan, Elenco Sist. Of idi, 1863: 92> Type-locality; Originally given by Jan as 

 "Amer. Merid." and "Brasile", but modified to "Amer. Merid." only by Jan, Icon. Gen. Ophid., 

 I87O. Livr. 35, pi. 1, fig. 4; Peracca, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino, I856, 11 

 (231)* 5> states that the bottle containing the type at NeuchStel includes a label saying 

 "Perou-Voyage Tschudi". 



I896 Drepanodon anomalus — Peracca, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino, 11 (231): 3. 



I836 Drepanodon as t i gma t icus Peracca, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino, 11 (231): 5- Type- 

 locality: Iquitos, Peru. 



19*1 Pseudoclel ia guttata Rendahl and Vestergren, Ark. for Zool., 33* (5)' 10. Type-locality: Rfo 

 Pastaza between Rfo Puyo and Rfo Copataza, Ecuador. 



Distribution: Central Bolivia north to southern Colombia along Andean front. 



