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PHILODRYAS 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Dark vertebral band broken anteriorly into 1. Banda vertebral oscura interrumpida 



paired or alternating spots, or into anter iormente, generando puntos apareados 



crossbands ruf i dorsatus o alternos o bandas transversales 



Dark vertebral band continuous anteriorly — ruf i dorsatus 



- eleqans Ganda vertebral oscura anter i ormente 



cont I nua eleqans 



Ph I lodrvas eleqans eleqans (Tschudi) 



I854 Dryophvlax f rem i nv i lie i Oumeril, Bibron and Dumeril, Erp. Gen., f: III5. Type-locality: 

 Guiana and Gallao, Peru; restricted to Callao by Schmidt and Walker, Zool. Ser. Field 

 Mus. Mat. Hist., 24, I543, 317. 



1943 Ph ilodryas eleqans eleqans — Schmidt and Walker, Zool. Ser. Field Mus.- Nat. Hist., 24: 

 317. 



Distribution: Rimac Valley in Peru to northern Chile. 



Ph i lodryas eleqans ruf i dorsatus (Gunther) 



I858 Drom icus ruf i dorsatus Gunther, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus.: I3O. Type-locality: America; 



restricted to coastal Peru by Schmidt and Walker, Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 24, 



1943, 315. 



1868 Tachymenis canilatus Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., 1868: 104. Type-locality: 

 Guayaquil, Ecuador. 



1876 Lyqophis poec i lostomus Cope. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., (2) 8 (I875): 180. Type- 

 locality: Valley of Jequetepeque, Peru. 



I878 Dryophvlax v i tell i nus Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, I7: 33* Type-locality: Pacasmayo, 

 Peru. 



1943 Philodryas eleqans rufidorsatus — Schmidt and Walker, Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 24: 315. 



Distribution: Guayaquil, Ecuador, to Departamento Libertad, Peru. 



PHILODRYAS MATTOGROSSENSIS Koslowsky 



1898 Philodryas mattoqrossens i s Koslowsky. Rev. Mus. La Plata, 8: 29, pi. 1, figs. I-3. Type- 

 locality: Miranda, Mate Grosso, Brazil. 



1901 Philodryas ternetzii Schenkel. Verb. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, I3 (I9OO): I7O, fig. 6. Type- 



locality: Bemalcue, Paraguay. 



1902 Philodryas Erlandi Lonnberq. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 10: 460. Type-locality: Crevaux and 



Tatarenda, Bolivian Chaco, Bolivia. 

 1909 Philodryas boulengeri Werner, Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, 26; 232, fig. f. Type-locality: 

 Unknown (Werner added "angeblich 'Indien'"). 



Distribution: Southwestern Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia. 



PHILODRYAS NATTERERI (Ste indachner) 



I87O Philodryas Nattereri Ste i ndachner, Sitz. Math.-Naturw i ss. Kl. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 62: 345, pi. 7, 



figs. 1-3- Type-locality: Mato Grosso, Brazil. 

 I896 Ph ilodryas natterer i — Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 3: I34. 



Distribution: Paraguay and western central Brazil. 



