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LEPTODEIRA 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Body rounded; vertebral row normal; nape 1. Cuerpo redondeadoj fila vertebral normal- 



pattern present 2 diseHo nucal presente 2 



Body compressed; vertebral row enlarged; Cuerpo comprimido; fila vertebral agran- 

 no stripes on nape annulata dada ; sin disefio nucal annulata 



2. Two bars laterally on nape 3 2. Diserio nucal con dos bandas longitudi- 



On'e stripe middorsally on nape rhomb i f era nales 3 



Disefio nucal con una banda longitudinal 



3. Neither longitudinal stripes on parietals rhomb if era 



or temporals, nor Y-shaped mark on parie- „ . . . , , , . ,» 



. , L J- 3- r'arietaies v temporales sin lineas oscuras 



tais ashmead i -^ j: j „ , ,. 



c-L, , •! J- 1 J 1 i • '• marca en torma de Y ashmeadi 



Either longitudinal dark stripes on pane- o • ± , , •, ,» 



, 1 . , V u J I rarietaies o temporales con lineas oscuras 



tals or temporals, or a Y-shaped mark on ^ ^ , ,, . 



parietals pulchr iceps 



Leptode i ra annulata annulata (Linnaeus) 



con una marca en forma de Y sobre parie- 

 tales pulchr iceps 



178? Coluber albofuscus Lacepede. Hist. Nat. Serp., 2: 312. Type-locality; America. 

 1863 Ete irodipsas annulata var. rhomboidal is Jan, Elenco Syst. Ofidi: IO5. Type-locality: 



Bras i 1. 

 1872 Dipsas approximans Gijnther. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (l) 5: 32. Type-locality: Chyavetas, 



Peru. 

 1884 Eteirodipsas Wieneri Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, (7) 8: 146. Type-locality; 



Ecuador. 

 1901 Leptodira nycthemera Werner. Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, I5OI: 598. Type-locality: 



Ecuador. 

 1929 Leptode ira annulata annulata — Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, 4: 78. 

 1958 Leptodeira annulata annulata — Duellman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 114: 47. 



Distribution: Amazon Basin from below 1100 m in southern Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and 

 Bolivia, to mouth of Amazon; along Atlantic coast south to Sao Paulo. 



Leptode ira annulata ashmead i (Hallowell) 



1845 Coluber ashmeadi Hallowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I845: 244. Type-locality: 



"200 miles of Caracas, Venezuela" restricted by Duellman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 114, 1958, **, to vicinity of Caracas, Distrito Federal, Venezuela. 



1547 Leptode i ra rhomb if era kuqler i Shreve, Bull. Mus. Comp, Zool., 99' 531- Type-locality: 

 Riecito, Acosta District, Falcon, Venezuela. 



1958 Leptode i ra annulata ashmeadi — Duellman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 114; 43. 



Distribution: East of Santa Marta Mountains, Colombia, through coastal northern Venezuela, 

 to Rfo Orinoco; Tobago, Trinidad, and Isla Margarita, Venezuela. 



Leptodeira annulata pulchr iceps Duellman 



1958 Leptode i ra annulata pulchr iceps Duellman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 114: 51- Type- 

 locality: Bodoquena, Mato Grosso, Brazil. 



Distribution: Southern Mato Grosso to vicinity of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, and 

 Asuncion, Paraguay; Chaco region, Argentina. 



Leptode ira annulata rhomb if era Gunther 



1872 Leptodeira rhombifera Gunther. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) '): 32. Type-locality: Rfo 

 Chisoy, near Cubulco, Guatemala. 



I893 Sibon septentrionale Kenn., subsp. rubricatum Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 3I: 347. 

 Type-locality: Boca Mala, Costa Rica. 



1895 Leptodeira ocellata Gunther, Biol. Cent. Amer., Rept.: I72, pi. 55, fig. B. Type- 

 localities: Chontales Mines, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. 



1958 Leptodeira annulata rhombifera — Duellman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 114: 39. 



Distribution: Central and southeastern Guatemala to Panama in subhumid habitats; Archipielago 

 de las Perlas, Panama. 



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