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REPTILIA: SERPENTES : COLUBRIDAE -^ PSEUDOTOMODON 



Prepared by Joseph R. Bailey, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 

 PSEUDOTOMODON Koslowsky 



1856 Pseudotomodon Koslowsky, Rev. Mus. La Plata, 7' 45^. Type-species: Pseudotomodon mendoz inus 



Koslowsky. 



1857 Pseudotomodon Peracca, Bol. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino, 12 (278): 1. Type-species: 



Pseudotomodon Or i veil i i Peracca. 



Distribution: As for single known species. 

 Content: One species. 



PSEUDOTOMODON TRIGONATUS (Leybold) 



I873 Pel ias tr igonatus Leybold, Excursion a las Pampas Argentlnas, Hojas de mi Diario, 1873' 82. 

 Type-locality: Mendoza Province, Argentina. 



1856 Pseudotomodon mendoz i nus Koslowsky, Rev. Mus. La Plata, 7' *55> pl- ^- Type-locality: Rfo 



Diamante, Oepartamento 25 de Mayo, Provlncia Mendoza, Argentina. 



1857 Pseudotomodon Cr i veil i i Peracca, Bol. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino, 12 (278): 1. Type- 



locality: Las Chimbas, about 5" km northwest of San Luis, Argentina. 



Distribution: Western Argentina. 



Comment: This species has most recently been considered a subspecies of Tomodon ocellatus Oumeril, 

 Bibron and Dumeril, but both it and the genus Pseudotomodon are clearly distinct from Tomodon . 

 The author will publish full substantiation of this at a later date. 



