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LEIMADOPHIS 



LEIMADOPHIS TYPHLUS (Linnaeus) 



1758 Coluber Typhlus Linnaeus. Systems Naturae, Ed. 10: 218. Type-locality: Indiis. 



I87O Xenodon isolepis Cope. Proc. Amer. Phil. See, 11 (I865): 155. Type-locality: Pebas, Peru. 



I887 Opheomorphus brachyurus Cope. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 24: 57' Type-locality: Near Chapada, Mato 



Grosso, Brazil. 

 I857 L i oph i s Guenther i Peracca, Bol. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino, 12 (27A): 11. Type-locality: 



Caiza, Chaco of Bolivia. 

 1516 L i oph i s elaeo i des Griffin, Mem. Carnegie Mus., 7 (l^lS)' 187' Type-locality: Santa Cruz de la 



Sierra, Provincia del Sara, Bolivia. 

 1925 Liophis macrops Werner. Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 134 (l): 57- Type-locality: Paramaribo, 



Sur i nam. 

 1526 Le imadoph i s typhlus — Amaral, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 16: 3^2. 



Distribution: South America east of Andes and north of about 35°^ latitude. 



Content: Two subspecies. 



Comment: Hoge, Mem. Inst. Butantan, JO, I56O-62 (1964), did not comment on any of the above 

 Synonyms when he revived the taxon f orster i Wagler, and we cannot place them in their proper 

 positions below. This must await a review of their status by future workers. 



Key to the subspecies 



Clave de subespecies 



1. Ventrals 136-148- 

 Ventrals I55-I65- 



-- typhlus 1. Ventrales 136-148- 

 - forsteri Ventrales I55-I65- 



— typhlus 

 -f orster i 



Leimadoph i s typhlus typhlus (Linnaeus) 



1964 Leimadophis typhlus typhlus — Hoge . Mem. Inst. Butantan, 3O (196O-62): 58. 

 Distribution: Uncertain; not defined by Hoge, loc. cit. 



Le imadoph i s typhlus f orster i (Wagler) 



1824 Natr ix G. Forster i Wagler, in Spix, Sp. Nov. Serp. Bras.: I6, pi. 4, fig. 1. Type- 

 locality: Bahia, Brazil. 

 1964 Leimadophis typhlus f orster i — Hoge . Mem. Inst. Butantan, 3O (196O-62): 59. 



Distribution: Uncertain; not defined by Hoge, loc. cit., when he revalidated this taxon. 



LEIMADOPHIS VIRIDIS (Cunther) 



1862 L iophis vir idis Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3) '): 58, pi. 9, fig. 2. Type-locality: 



Pernambuco, Brazil; and South America. 



1863 L ioph i s typhlus var. pras i na Jan, Icon Gen. Ophid., Livr. 18: pi. 4, fig. 3« Type-locality: 



Brazil. 

 I894 Liophis viridis — Boulenqer. Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 2: I35. 

 1926 [ Le imadoph i s viridis — Amaral, Rev. Mus. Paulista, 15= (78? Taken from reprint). 



Distribution: Southern and eastern Brazil; Paraguay. 



LEIMADOPHIS ZWEIFELI Roze 



1959 Leimadophis zweifeli Roze, Amer. Mus. Novitates, 1934: 4, fig. 1. Type-locality: Rancho Grande, 



Estado de Aragua, Venezuela, 1100 m. 

 1966 Leimadoph is zweifel i — Roze, Ofidios de Venezuela: 164, fig. 39. 



Distribution: Central part of Cordillera de la Costa, Venezuela. 



