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RHADINAEA 



RHADINAEA MONTECRISTI Mertens 



1352 Rh^dinaga rnontecnsti Mortens, Zool. Anz., 145: I36. Type-locality: Hacienda Monte Cnsto, 

 Metapan IMounta.n?], Departamento Santa Ana, El Salvador, 2200 m. 



Distribution: Known only from type locality. 



RHADINAEA PACHYURA (Cope) 



18/6 Cont ia pachyura Cope, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., (2) 8 (I875): 145. Type-locality: Sipurio, 



Costa R I ca. 

 1538 Rhadinaea pachyura — Dunn, Copeia, I538: I58. 



Distribution: Costa Rica to Pacific Ecuador. 



Content: Two subspecies. 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Subcaudals 102-11/ fulviceps 1. Subcaudales 102-117 fulviceps 



Subcaudals fewer than 75 pachyura Subcaudales menos de 75 pachyura 



Rhad I naea pachyura pachyura (Cope) 



15*4 [Rhadinaea pachyura J pachyura — Dunn, Caldasia, 2: 453. 



Distribution: Costa Rica and western Panama. 

 Rhad i naea pachyura f ul v 1 ceps Cope 



1886 Rhadinaea fulv.ceps Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 23: 275. Type-locality: Panama. 

 1544 Rhad I nata pachyura f ul v I ceps — Dunn, Caldasia, 2: 452. 



Distribution: Panama; Pacific Colombia and Ecuador. 



RHADINAEA PERSIMlllS Dunn 



1538 Rhad 1 naea pers im 1 1 is Dunn, Copeia, 153^' 197' Type-locality: La Loma, Provincia Bocas del Toro, 

 Panama, I5OO ft. 



1951 Rhadinaea pers i m i 1 1 s — Taylor. Univ. Kansas Sc 1 . Bull., 34: I17. 



Distribution: Costa Rica. 



Comment: Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 2, 1854, 173> tentatively synonymized L i oph i s pers im i 1 i s 

 Cope, 1868, with Rhad i naea poec i lopoqon Cope, 1863. If this synonymy is demonstrated to be 

 valid, Rhad i naea pers i m i 1 i s Dunn, 1938> will require a new name. 



RHADINAEA PINICOLA Mertens 



1952 Rhadinaea pimcola Mertens. Zool. Anz., 145: 135, Type-locality: Hacienda San Jose, Metapan 



(Mountain?), Departamento Santa Ana, El Salvador, I5OO m. 



Distribution: Known only from type locality. 

 RHADINAEA POECILOPOGON Cope 



1863 Rhadinaea poecilopooon Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., I863: 100. Type-locality: Paysondu, 



Uruguay; actually Paysandu, Uruguay, according to Vaz Ferreira and Sierra de Soriano, Rev. 



Fac, Hum. Cien., Montevideo, 18, I96O, 36. 

 1863 E.[ n icoqnathus ] elegans Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Fis., 2: 268. Type-locality: Montevideo and 



Buenos A i res. 

 I863 Dromicus melanoceohalus Peters. Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, I863: 277. Type-locality: 



apparently Sao Paulo, Brazil. 

 ?1865 Liophis persimilis Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., 1868: 3O8. Type-locality: Rio de 



Jane i ro, Braz i 1 . 

 1885 Enicojnathus billneatus Fischer, Jahr. Wiss. Anst. Hamburg, 2: 58, pi. 3, fig. 5. Type-locality: 



Santos, Brazil. 

 1943 Rhad i naea poec i lopogon — Prado, Mem. Inst. Butantan, I7: I3. 



Distribution: Southern Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. 



