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LEPTODEIRA 



LEPTODEIRA BAKERI Ruthven 

 annulata group 



19S6 Leptodeira bakeri Ruthven, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 33^: !• Type-locality: Aruba 



Island, Dutch West Indies. 

 iqS8 Leptodeira bakeri — Duellman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 114; 51. 



Distribution: Aruba Island. 



LEPTODEIRA FRENATA (Cope) 

 annulata group 



1886 Si bon f renatum Cope, in Ferrari -Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 5' 184. Type-locality: Jalapa, 



Veracruz, Mex i co. 

 IBJl Leptodeira frenatum — Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 14: 677. 



Distribution: Veracruz, Tabasco, and Chiapas, throughout Yucatan Penfnsula, El Peten, Guatemala 

 and British Honduras. 



Content: Three subspecies, according to the most recent revision, by Duellman, Bull. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., 114, 155S> 58» of which two ( f renata Cope and yucatanensis Cope) are "xtral im i tal. 



Leptode ira f renata malle i si Dunn and Stuart 



1935 Leptode ira yucatanens i s malle is i Dunn and Stuart, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 313- 



1. Type-locality: Tuxpena, Campeche, Mexico. 

 19^5 Leptodeira frenata malleisi — Duellman and Werler, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 57'^' 



1, pi. 1. 

 1558 Leptode i ra frenata malle isi — Duellman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 114: 62. 



Distribution: Northern Chiapas, El Peten, Guatemala and British Honduras. 



LEPTODEIRA Nl GROFASC I ATA Gijnther 

 n I qrofasc iata group 



1868 Leptodeira n I orof asciata Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 1; 425. Type-locality: Nicaragua. 

 I865 Leptodeira mystacina Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 11: I5I. Type-locality: Western Mexico, 



Isthmus of Tehuantepec; restricted to Tehuantepec city by Smith and Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sc i . 



Bull., 33, 1950, S-'O- 



19S8 Leptodeira n i qrofasc iata — Duellman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 114; 87. 



Distribution; Pacific lowlands of Guerrero, Mexico to Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa 

 Rica. 



LEPTODEIRA SEPTENTRIONAL I S (Kennicott) 

 septentr i onal I s group 



I859 Dipsas septentrional is Kennicott, in Baird, Rept. of the Boundary, 2: I6, pi. 8, fig. 1. Type- 

 locality: Matamoras, Tamaulipas, Mexico; restricted by Smith and Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sc i . 

 Bull., 33, 1950, 361, to Brownsville, Texas. 



I89I Leptodeira septentrional is — Stejneger Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 14: ^0^. 



Distribution: From Texas on east and central Nayarit on west, south along both coasts to 



Caribbean Colombia, Pacific slope of South America to northern Peru, and in upper R'o MaraRon 

 Valley, Peru. 



Content; Four subspecies, one ( septentr i onal is Kennicott) extral imi tal, according to the 

 latest revision by Duellman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 114; 195^. Shannon and Humphrey, 

 Herpetologica, I9, I963 (1964), 262, include taylori Smith, 1941, as a subspecies of 

 septentr i onal i s . 



