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OXYBELIS 



OXYBELIS BREVIROSTRIS (Cope) 



1861 D.[ ryoph i s ] brevirostris Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., 1860: 555. Type-locality: 



"Veraguas, New Grenada". 



I863 O.T xybel i s j coerulescens Jan, Elenco Sist. Degl i Ofidi: 88. Type-locality: Costa Rica. 



I856 Oxybel i s brev i rostr is — Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 3' 19". 



Distribution: Caribbean lowlands of Central America from Nicaragua through Panama to Pacific 

 lowlands of Colombia and Ecuador. 



OXYBELIS FULGIDUS (Oaudln) 



I8O3 Coluber fulqidus Daudin, Hist. Nat. Rept., 6: 352, pi. 80. Type-locality: In neighborhood of 

 Port-au-Prince, Santo Domingo (presumably in error); suggested as Surinam by Schmidt, Zool. 

 Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 22, 15*1, 5O6; restricted to Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, by 

 Smith and Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33, I95O, 352. 



1837 D, 

 1853 0. 



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ry i oph is j catesby i Schlegel, Essa i Physion. Serp., 252. Type-locality: Uncertain. 



xybel i s 



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Iq i dus — Dumeril, Mem. Acad. Sci. Paris, 23: 487. 



Distribution: Low to moderate elevations of Mexico, Central America, and tropical South America 

 east of Andes. 



