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LEIMADOPHIS 



Le imadoph i s req i nae req i nae (Linnaeus) 



1935 Le imadoph is req i nae [ req i nae j — Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, '): 238. 

 Distribution: As for species, except for Goias and S3o Paulo, Brazil. 



[ e imadoph is reg i nae macrosoma Amaral 



iq35 Leimadophis reginae macrosoma Amaral. Mem. Inst. Butantan, 5: 238. Type-locality: 

 Canna Brava, Goias, Brazil. 



1554 Leimadophis reginae maculicauda Hoge, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 24 (2) (1952): 241. Type- 

 local i ty: Not g i ven. 



iqSq Leimadophis reginae macrosoma — Hoge, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 28 (1557-58): 69- 



Distribution: Goias and Sao Paulo, Brazil. 



LEIMADOPHIS SAGITTIFER (jan) 



I863 L.[ iopelt is ] saoittifer Jan. Elenco Sistematico Degli Ofidi: 82. Type-locality: Mendoza, 



Argent i na. 

 I867 Liophis pulcher Ste i ndachner, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 55: 267, pl- 2, figs. I-3. 

 1894 Rhadinaea saqittifera — Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 2: l65. 

 1896 Rhadinaea modesta Koslowsky. Rev. Mus. La Plata, 7: 453, Pl- 3- Type-locality: Provincia de 



Salta, Argentina. 

 1526 Le imadoph i s sag i tt iter — Amaral, Rev. Mus. Paulista, 14: I9. 

 1964 Leimadophis sag i tt i f er — Abalos. Baez, and Nader, Acta Zool. Lilloana, 20: 227, ^'9' 5- 



Distribution: Northwestern Argentina; southern Brazil. 



LEIMADOPHIS SIMONSI I (Boulenger) 



1900 Philodryas Simonsi i Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 6: I85. Type-locality: Cajamarca, Peru, 



9000 ft. 

 1932 Leimadophis s imons i i —Parker. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (lO) 9: 22. 



Distribution: Higher elevations in northern Peru and southern Ecuador. 



Comment: Schmidt and Walker, Zooi. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 24, I943, 315, put this species in 

 the synonymy of Ph ilodryas elegans ruf i dorsatus . but they do not refer to Parker's paper (above), 

 in which the species is re-validated, and it is not certain whether they had seen it. 



LEIMADOPHIS TAENIURUS (Tschudi) 



184S L.[ iophis ] taeniurus Tschudi. Arch, fur Naturg., 11 (l): l64. Type-locality: Peru; "in der 



heissen Waldregion," Peru, according to Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, Rept., 1846, 51- 

 I894 Liophis taeniurus — Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 2: I3O. 

 1944 [ Leimadoph i s j taTniurus — Dunn, Caldasia, 2: 481. 



Distribution: Amazonian Peru and Ecuador. 



LEIMADOPHIS TRISCAL IS (Linnaeus) 



1758 Coluber Triscalis Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10: 224. Type-locality: Indiis. 

 I7S8 Coluber cqrallinus Linnaeus. Systema Naturae, Ed. 10: 223. Type-locality: Asia. 

 ?1863 L.[ iophis ] rufus Jan. Arch. Zool. Anat. Fis., 2: 3OI. Type-locality: Unknown. 

 I894 Liophis triscalis — Boulenger. Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 2: I29. 

 1929 Leimadophis triscalis — Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 4: I68. 



Distribution: Caribbean South America; Curajao. A record from Paraguay, by Gatti, 1955> 's probably 

 an erroneous identification. Roze, Ofidios de Venezuela, I966, I63, also questions validity of 

 records from Venezuela. 



