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REPTILIA: SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE -^ ^ ^ DRYMOLUBER 



DRYMOLUBER Amaral 



1925 Drvmoluber Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 4: 335, fig. Type-species; Herpetodryas dichroa Peters. 



Distribution: Tropical South America, from northeastern Brazil and Guianas through Amazonian region 

 to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. 



Content: Two species. 



Key to the species Clave de especies 



1. Dorsal scales in 15 rows dichrous 1. Escamas dorsales en I5 filas d ichrous 



Dorsal scales in 17 rows braz ili Escamas dorsales en I7 filas brazili 



DRYMOLUBER BR AZILI (Gomes) 



I5I8 Drymobius Brazili Gomes, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 1: 81, pi. 14, fig. 2. Type-locality: EstajSo de 



Engenheiro Lisb8a, near Uberaba, Estado de Minas Gerais, Brazil. 

 1523 Drymobius rubriceps Amaral, Proc. New England Zool. Club , 8: 85. Type-locality: Estado de SSo 



Paulo, Brazil. 

 19^2 Drymoluber brazili — Stuart, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 236: 3. 



Distribution: South central Brazil. 



DRYMOLUBER DICHROUS (Peters) 



1863 Herpetodryas dichroa Peters. Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, I863: 284. Type-locality: Brazil; 



Surinam. 

 1868 Herpetodryas occipitalis Gunther. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (a) 1: 43O. Type-locality: Pebas, 



Ecuador. 

 1868 Spilotes piceus Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868; IO5. Type-locality: Napo or Upper 



Maraflon, Ecuador. 

 133^ Drymoluber dichrous — Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 4: 82. 



Distribution: Colombia, Ecuador, eastern Peru, northern Brazil, Amazonian Venezuela. 



