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GEOPHIS 



GEOPHIS HOFFMANNI (Peters) 

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1859 Colobognathus Hoffmann i Peters, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 185?: 276, 4 figs. Type-locality: 



Costa Rica and Puerto Caballo, Costa Rica; fixed as Costa Rica by lectotype designation in 



Downs, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., I3I, I567, I55. 

 188? Geophis hof f mann i — Bocourt . Miss. Sc i . Mex., Reptiles: 525. 

 155^ Geophis bartholomew i Brattstrom and Howell, Herpetolog lea, 10: 120. Type-locality: Arenal, 



25 mi east of Jalapa, Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua, 1200 ft. 

 155* Geoph i s acut irostr is Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sc i . Bull., 36: 391> ^'S- 3- Type-locality: Cot, 



Volcan Irazu, Provincia Cartago, Costa Rica, about 55^0 ft. 

 1967 Geophis hoffmanni — Downs. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., I3I: I55, fig. 19. 

 Distribution: Low and moderate elevations in Honduras and Nicaragua on both slopes to Panama. 



GEOPHIS IMMACULATUS Downs 

 dub ius group 



1967 Geophis immaculatus Downs, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 131: 9", f'g.7' Type-locality: 

 Finca Lorena, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, about I7OO f- 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality; Pacific slope of Guatemala. 



GEOPHIS NASALIS (Cope) 

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1868 Catostoma nasale Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., 1868: I6O. Type-locality: near the city 



of Guatemala, Guatemala. 

 1941 Geophis nasalis — Smith, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 99 (19): 4. 

 1967 Geophis nasalis- — Downs, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., I3I: I6O, fig, 15. 



Distribution; Pacific slope of Chiapas, and Guatemala, and adjacent parts of Guatemalan Plateau and 

 South-eastern highlands in eastern Guatemala; 6OO-I5OO mj in "coffee zone". 



GEOPHIS RHODOGASTER (Cope) 

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1868 Colophrys rhodoqaster Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., 1868: I3O. Type-locality; "the ele- 

 vated country in the neighborhood of the city of Guatemala." 

 1883 Geophis rhodoqaster — Boc'ourt, Miss. Sc i . Mex., Rept.: 531' 

 1967 Geophis rhodoqaster — Downs, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., I3I; 9^, fig. ]• 



Distribution; Western part of Guatemalan Plateau, east through southeastern highlands of Guatemala 

 and El Salvador; generally from oak-pine associations between I5OO-25OO m. 



GEOPHIS RUTHVENI Werner 

 champ i on i group 



192'i Geophis ruthveni Werner. Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, I34 (l): 60. Type-locality: Sarapigui, Brazil; 



in error for Sarapiqui, Provincia Heredia, Costa Rica, according to Downs, Misc. Publ. Mus. 



Zool. Univ. Mich., 131, 1967, 75. 

 1967 Geophis ruthveni — Downs. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., I3I: 75, fig. 5. 



Distribution: Caribbean slopes of western end of Cordillera Central and Pacific slopes of 

 Cordillera Guanacaste, Costa Rica, 55''"16'^'' '"• 



GEOPHIS ZELEDONI Taylor 

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195'' Geophis zeledoni Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sc i . Bull., 3^= ^33) ^'5- ^' Type-locality: Finca 



Zeledon, between Volcan Barba and Volcan Poas, Costa Rica, about 6000 ft. 

 1967 Geophis zeledoni — Downs. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., I3I: I74, fig. I9. 



Distribution: Slopes of Volcan Poas between I6OO and 2000 m, Cordillera Central of Costa Rica. 



