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NINIA 



Ninia maculata maculata (Peters) 



1948 Ninia maculata maculata — Stuart, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 69: 75* 



Distribution: Pacific slopes of Darien and Panama Canal Zone to central Costa Rica; Carib- 

 bean drainage of Costa Rica. 



Ninia maculata pavimentata (Bocourt) 



I883 Streptophorus maculatus pavimentatus Bocourt, Miss. Sc i . Mex., Rent.: 5^9> Pl' 32, figs. 



8-8d, pi. 33> fig- 2. Type-locality: Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. 

 1948 Ninia maculata pavimentata — Stuart, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 69; 75' 



Distribution: Moderate elevations in mountains of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. 



Ninia maculata tessellata Cope 



1876 Ninia sebae tessellata Cope. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., (2) 8, I875: 14$. Type- 

 locality: Costa Rica. 



1910 Streptophorus subtessellatus Werner. Mitt. Nat. Hist. Mus. Hamburg, 26: 215. Type- 

 locality: Cariblanco, Costa Rica. 



195* Ninia maculata tessellata — Burger, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 36: 653- 



Distribution; Caribbean slope of southern Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and probably of Panama. 



NINIA OXYNOTA (Werner) 



1910 Streptophorus oxynotus Werner. Mitt. Nat. Hist. Mus. Hamburg, 26: 216. Type-locality; 



Cariblanco, Costa Rica. 

 1951 Ninia oxynota — Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., Ji: 56- 



Distribution; Subtropical zone of Cordillera Central, Costa Rica, above 4000 ft. 



NINIA PSEPHOTA (Cope) 



1876 Catostoma psephotum Cope, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., (2) 8, 1875' 1*6. Type-locality: Higher 



points on Pico Blanco, chiefly in rainy zone from 5OOO-7OOO ft, Costa Rica. 

 1535 Ninia psephota — Dunn, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 21; 12. 



Distribution: Subtropical zone, Volcan de Chiriquf, Panama, and adjacent Cordillera de Talamanca, 

 eastern Costa Rica, above 4000 ft. 



NINIA SEBAE (Oumeril, Bibron and Dumeril) 



I854 Streptophorus sebae Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril, Erp. Gen., 7' 5^5' Type-locality: Mexico; 



restricted to state of Veracruz, Mexico, by Schmidt and Andrews, Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. 



Hist., 20, 1936, 171> 3nd to Veracruz, State of Veracruz, Mexico, by Smith and Taylor, Univ. 



Kansas Sci. Bull., 33, I95O, 351. 

 193*5 Ninia sebae — Dunn, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 21: 11. 



Distribution: Oaxaca and Veracruz, Mexico, including dryer part of Yucatan Peninsula south to Costa 

 Rica. 



Content: Four subspecies, according to the most recent revision of the species by Schmidt and 

 Rand, Fieldiana: Zool., 39, 1957, 73-8''' 



Key to the subspecies d^^^ ^^ subespecies 



1. Black dorsal spots in the form of well- 1. oiseflo dorsal de barras transversas, negras 

 defined transverse bars, often reduced in f recuentemente reducidas en numero y tama- 

 both size andnumber or absent (nuchal „^^ „ ausentes; mancha nucal negra, en 



black saddle invariable) 2 f^rma de silla de montar, constante 2 



Dorsal markings of small spots rather than 0;^^^,^ d^^^^l pequePtas manchas muy nume- 



vertical bars, very numerous, never re- ^^^^^^ ,„,^3 ^.s^^tes punctulata 



duced in number or absent punctulata 



