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LEIMADOPHIS 



Leimadoph is poecilogyrus xerophi lus Amaral 



1544 L.[ e imadophi s j poecilogyrus xerophi lus Amaral, Pap. Avul. Depto. Zool. SSo Paulo, 5- 81. 

 Type local i ty: Not clearly statedj perhaps Ceara, Brazil. 



Distribution! Semi-arid regions, Pernambuco to PiauT, northeastern Brazil. 



LEIMADOPHIS PSEUOOCOBELLA (Peracca) 



1514 L ioph is pseudocobella Peracca, Mem. Soc. Neuchatel Sci. Nat., 5' 59- Type-locality: Angelopolis, 



Colomb ia. 

 1525 Le imadoph i s pseudocobella — Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 4: 167. 

 1531 L i oph i s cobella alt icolus Amaral, Bull. Antivenin Inst. America, 4: 87. Type-locality: Jerico, 



Colomb ia . 

 1544 Le imadoph i s pseudocobella — Dunn, Caldasia, 2; 484. 



Distribution: Central and western Andes of Colombia. 



LEIMADOPHIS PYGMAEUS (Cope) 



1868 Liophis pyqmaeus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868: 103. Type-locality: Napo or neighbor- 

 ing part of MaraRon, Ecuador 

 1854 L ioph i s pyqmaeus — Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 2: I25. 

 1529 Le imadoph i s pyqmaeus — Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 4: 167» 

 1944 Leimadophis pyqmaeus — Dunn, Caldasia, 2: 488. 



Distribution: Upper Amazonian region of Colombia and Ecuador. 



LEIMADOPHIS REGINAE (Linnaeus) 



1758 Coluber Reg i nae Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10: 213. Type-locality: Indiis; in error, 



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locality: None given. 

 1802 Coluber Graph i cus Shaw, General Zoology, J: iji. Type-locality: America. 

 1824 Natrix semilineata Waqler. in Spix, Sp. Nov. Serp. Bras.: 33> Pl- Hj ^'S' 2. Type-locality: Rio 



L/-)0 ooiuoer neqinae Linnaeus, oystema Naturae, to. lu: di^. 1 yoe-iocai 1 ty: inoiis; in error, 



according to Hoge, Mem. Inst. Butantan, JO, I96O-62 (I964), 57> ^^° designated it as Surinam. 

 ?1789 Coluber Violaceus Lacepede. Histoire Naturelle des Serpens, 2 (l): II6, pi. 8, fig. 1. Type- 



Sol imoes, Brazil. 

 I863 |_ L ioph i s reo i nae j var. quadr i 1 i neata Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Fis., 2: 295' Type-locality: 



Ecuador. 

 I863 |_ L ioph is req I nae J var. ornata Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Fis., 2: 295' Type-locality: Buenos Aires, 



Argent i na. 



Distribution: Northern South America, east of Andes; Goias and Sao Paulo, Brazil. 



Content: Two subspecies. 



Comment: Neither Amaral, in his description of macrosoma . nor Hoge, in the description of 



macul icauda . discussed the position of the many synonyms listed above. It is appropriate here 

 only to suggest that full review of the species with proper allocation of the synonyms and 

 detailed statement of ranges needsto be made. 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Caudal scales with dark spotsj no lateral 1. Escamas caudales con manchas oscuras; sin 



spots on body anteriorly; body light; tail manchas laterales en el parte anterior del 



long macrosoma del cuerpo; cuerpo claro; cola larga 



Caudal scales without dark spots; body with macrosoma 



lateral spots anteriorly; body dark; tail Escamas caudales sin manchas oscuras; cuer- 



short reg i nae po con manchas laterales anter iormente; 



cuerpo oscuro; cola corta reg i nae 



