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EPICRATES 



Ep icrates cenchria hygroph ilus Amaral 



19'i4 Epicrates cenchria hyqrophilus Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 26: 239- Type-locality! 

 Baixo Guandu, Rio Doce, Esp'ritu Santo, Brazil. 



Distribution: Estado do Amazonas and region of Rio Doce, Estado do Esp'ritu Santo, Brazil. 

 Restricted on west by Serra do Espinha^o, according to Amaral, loc. cit. 



Ep icrates cenchria maurus Gray 



1845 Ep icrates maurus Gray, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus.: %, Type-locality: Venezuela. 



1863 Epicrates cupreus var. concolor Jan, Elenco SIst. Ofjd.: 24. Type-locality: Costa Rica. 



19'^'^ Epicrates cenct^ria maurus- — Stull, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 40: 396. 



Distribution: From Costa Rica to northern Colombia and Venezuela, probably northern 

 Guianas; Trinidad, Tobago and Margarita Islands. 



Ep icrates cenchria polylep is Amaral 



193'i Epicrates cenchria polylepis Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 9' 236. Type-locality: None 

 given by Amaral, specimens included came from Rio Pandeiro, Minas Gerais, and "Canna 

 Brava" (later called Rio Canabrava), inGoias, Brazil. In 195* (below) Amaral selected 

 a neotype from among the syntypes (calling it a "liolotype"), thus restricting the type- 

 locality to Rio Pandeiro. 



195* Ep icrates cenchr ia polylep is — Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 26: 241. 



Distribution: Region of rios Canabrava and Pandeiro in western Bahia and eastern Goiasj also 

 Oistrito Federal, Brazil. 



