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LEIMADOPHIS 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Ventrals fewer than I75 2 1. Menos de 175 ventrales 2 



Ventrals more than I75 ecuadorensi s Mas de 175 ventrales ecuadorens is 



2. Venter white epinephelus 2. Vlentre bianco epinephelus 



Venter red with black blotches Juvenal is Vientre rojo con manchas negras Juvenal is 



Le imadoph is ep i nephelus ep i nephelus (Cope) 



1544 Le imadoph is ep i nephalus ep i nephalus — Dunn, Caldasia, 2: 483« 

 Distribution: Canal Zone, Panama to western Ecuador. 



Le imadoph i s ep i nephelus ecuadorens i s Laurent 



1945 Le imadoph i s ep i nephalus ecuadorens i s Laurent, Bull. Inst. Roy. Hist. Nat. Belgique, 25 

 (5)5 S. Type-locality: Ecuador. 



Distribution: Known only from type specimen. 



Le imadoph is epj nephelus Juvenal is Dunn 



1937 Le imadoph is taen iurus Juvenal i s Dunn, Copeia', 1937' 213- Type-locality: San Jose, Costa 



Rica. 

 1944 [^ Le imadoph i s j ep i nephalus Juvenal is — Dunn, Caldasia, 2; 483. 

 1951 Le imadoph i s taen i urus Juvenal is — Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sc i . Bull., 3*' 102. 



Distribution; Costa Rica to western Panama. 



LEIMADOPHIS FRASERI (Boulenger) 



I894 L ioph is fraser i Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 2: I3I, pi. 6, fig. 2. Type-locality: Western 



Ecuador. 

 1929 Leimadophis fraseri — Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 4: I66. 



Distribution: Western Ecuador. 



LEIMADOPHIS MELANOSTIGMA (Wagler) 



1824 Natrix melanostiqma Wagler. in Spix. Sp. Nov. Serp. Bras.: I7, pi. 4, fig. 2. Type-locality: 



Bahia, Brazil. 

 I885 Aporoph is cyanopleurus Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 22: I9I. Type-locality: Rio Grande do Sul, 



Brazil, probably Sao Joao do Monte Negro, according to Cope, loc. cit., p. I85. 

 1929 Le imadoph i s melanost i gma — Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 4: 166. 



Distribution: Brazil. 



LEIMADOPHIS MELANOTUS (Shaw) 



1802 Coluber Melanotus Shaw. General Zoology, 3: 534. Type-locality: Cape of Good Hope, Africa. 

 1820 [ Coluber ( Natr ix )J raninus Merrem, Tentamen Systematis Amphibiorum: 106. Type-locality: None 



g i ven. 

 1845 Coluber vittatus HaUowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1845: 242. Type-locality: Withi.T 200 



mi of Caracas, "Colombia"; actually in Venezuela. 

 I860 L i oph i s melanonotus Cope, ( replacement name for melanotus Shaw), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 



1860: 253. 

 1929 Le imadoph i s melanotus — Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 4: I66. 

 1966 Le imadoph i s melanotus — Roze, Of idios de Venezuela: 159> ^'9' 3^' 



Distribution: Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago and Grenada. 



