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MICRURUS 



M icrurus n i qroc inctus zun liens is Schmidt 



1532 M icrurus n i groc inctus zun i lens is Schmidt, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., (4) 20: 266. 



Type-locality: F i nca El Cipres, lower slopes of Volcan Zunil, Such i teoequez Province, near 



Samayac and Mazatenango, Guatemala. 

 1541 M icrurus n i groc inctus waqneri Mertens, Senckenberg iana, 23: 216. Type-locality: Finca 



Germania, Sierra Madre, Chiapas, Mexico, 4OO-I3OO m. 

 1943 Micrurus n igroc inctus ovandoens i s Schmidt and Smith, Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 



29: 26. Type-locality; Salto de Agua, Mount Ovando, about 15 mi northeast of Escuintla, 



Ch iapas, Mex ico. 



Distribution: Pacific slopes of Chiapas, Mexico to El Salvador and southern Honduras. 



MICRURUS PERUVIANUS Schmidt 



1936 M i crurus peruv ianus Schmidt, Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 193' Type-locality: Perico, 

 Departamento de Cajamarca, Peru- 

 Distribution: Andes of northeastern Peru. 



MICRURUS PSYCHES (Daudin) 



180'^ Vipera psyches Daudin, Hist. Nat. Rept., 8: 320, pi. 100, fig. 1. Type-locality: Surinam. 

 1919 Micrurus psyches — Beebe, Zoologica, 2: 216. 



Distribution: Northern South America from Colombia to Guianas; Trinidad. 



Content: Three subspecies. 



Key to the subspecies 



!• Black bands usually more than 22 in males; 

 ventrals usually fewer than 193 "^ males 



and usually fewer than 211 In females 2 



Black bands 15-22 in males; ventrals I93- 



210 in males and 211-218 in females 



medem i 



2. Red bands usually melanistic; ventrals 188- 



195 in males, and 2O3-213 in females 



psyches 



Red bands not melanistic; ventrals I8O-I9I 

 in males and 192-205 in f emales- c ire inal I s 



Clave de subespecies 



1. Usualmente mas de 22 bandas negras en 



machos; usualmente menos de 193 ventrales 



en machos y menos de 211 en hembras 2 



Bandas negras 15-22 en machos; ventrales 



193-210 en machos; 211-218 en hembras 



medem i 



2. Bandas rojas usualmente melanTst icas; ven- 



trales I88-I95 en machos; 203-213 en 



hembras psyches 



Bandas rojas no melan'st i cas; ventrales 



I8O-I9I en machos; I92-2O5 en hembras 



c ire i nal i s 



Micrurus psyches psyches (Daudin) 



1931 Micrurus psyches psyches — Amaral, Bull. Antivenin Inst., 4: 89. 



Distribution: Guianas, eastern and southern Venezuela, and extreme southern part of Colombia. 



Micrurus psyches c ire i nal is (Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril) 



1854 Elaps circinalis Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril, Erp. Gen., 7' 1210. Tvpe-local i ty: Martinique 



(in error, according to Roze, Amer. Mus. Novitates, 2287, ^3^1 > *l)- 

 1858 Elaps ri isei Jan, Rev. Mag. Zool., (2) 10: 525. Type-locality: lie Saint Thomas, Antilles. 

 1967 Micrurus psyches c irci nal i s — Roze, Amer. Mus. Novitates, 2287: 40. 



Distribution: Trinidad and adjacent mainland of Venezuela. 



