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ELAPOMORPHUS 



ELAPOMORPHUS BOLLEI Mertens 



153^ Elapomorphus bollei Mertens, Senckenberg iana, 3^' 183, f'g* !• Type-locality: Tandil, about 35O 

 km south of Buenos Aires and about I50 km from coast, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. 



Distribution: Known only from type locality. 



ELAPOMORPHUS LEPIDUS Reinhardt 



1861 Elapomorphus Lepldus Reinhardt. Vidensk. Medd. Naturhist. Foren. Kjobenhavn, 2 (i860): 235, 



pi. 4, fig. 6-9. Type-locality: "Arrayal de Bicudo near Rio da casca, Minas, Brazil". 

 1896 Elapomorphus lepidus — Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 3= 241. 



Distribution: Estados do Minas Gerais, Bahia, Espirito Santo, and Riode Janeiro, Brazil. 



ELAPOMORPHUS MERTENS I Hoge 



1955 Elapomorphus mertensi Hoge, Senckenberg iana Biol., 36: 3'^1> pl- 27 and pi. 29, fig. 3. 

 Type-locality: Serra Azul, SSo Paulo, Brazil. 



Distribution: Sao Paulo, Mate Grosso, Minas Gerais, and Parana, Brazil. 



ELAPOMORPHUS NASUTUS Gomes 



1915 Elapomorphus nasutus Gomes, Ann. Paulistas Med. Cirurg., 4: 121, pi. 3, fig. I-3. Type-locality: 



Paineiras, near Uberaba, Estado de Minas Gerais, Brazil. 

 1949 Elapomorphus nasutus — Hoge, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 21 (l948): 67, 4 figs. 



Distribution: "Triangulo Mineiro", Estado de Sao Paulo; also Minas Gerais and Santa Catarina, 

 Braz i 1. 



ELAPOMORPHUS QU I NQUEL I NEATUS (Raddi ) 



1820 Coluber 5 — Lineatus Raddi, Mem. Soc. Italiana Sci. Modena, 18, (Mem. 2, Fisica): 339, pi. 



Type-locality: Near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

 1837 Calamaria Blumi i Schlegel, Essai Phys. Serp.,2:45. Type-locality: Estado do Sao Paulo, Brazil. 

 1858 Elapocephalus taeniatus Gunther, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus.: 276. Type-locality: "America" ("North 



America", according to Gray, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 1849, 78, referring to same specimen). 

 1959 Elapomorphus gu i nguel i neatus — Hoge, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 28 (1957-58): 27O. 



Distribution: Eastern and Central Brazil. 



ELAPOMORPHUS TRICOLOR Dumeril, Bibron and Dumlril 



I854 Elapomorphus tricolor Dumeril, Bibron and Oumeril, Erp. Gen., 7: 837. Type-locality: Santa Cruz 

 "Santa Cruz de la Sierra a Chuquisaca, en Bolivia", according to Vanzolini, Rev. Bras. Biol., 

 8, 1948, 383. 

 1955 Elapomorphus tricolor — Hoge, Senckenberg iana Biol., 36: 3''1> Pls. 28 and 29, fig. 4. 



Distribution: Southern and western Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay. 



ELAPOMORPHUS WUCHERERI GUnther 



1861 Elapomorplius wucherer i Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3) 7= ^15> ■^'9- Type-locality: Bahia, 



Brazil (according to Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 3> 1896, 240, who recognized the composite 

 nature of Gijnther ' s t ype series, and fixed the name using two female syntypes from Bahia). 



I86I Elapomorphus accedens Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Fis., 2: 46. Type-locality: Bahia, Brazil. 



1896 Elapomorphus wuchereri — Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 3' 240. 



Distribution: Known from Bahia and Espirito Santo, Brazil. 



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