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REPTILIA: SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE * ^ * RHINOBOTHRYUM 



RHINOBOTHRYUM Wagler 



I83O Rh inobothryum Wagler, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 186. Type-species: Coluber macrorh inus Wagler. 

 Distribution: Panama and Costa Rica through tropical South America to valley of R'o Paraguay. 

 Content: Two species. 



Key to the species Clave de especies 



1. Wide red and black rings separated by narrow 1. Anchos anillos rojos y negros separados por 



yellow rings bovall i i finas bandas amarillas bovall i i 



No yellow ring between neighboring red and Anchos anillos' rojos y negros no separados 

 black rings lent iq i nosum por finas bandas amarillas lent iq i nosum 



RHINOBOTHRYUM BOVALL I I Andersson 



1916 Rh inobothr ium bovall i i Andersson, Medd. Goteborgs Mus. Zool. Afd., '): ')2, fig. 4. Type-locality: 



Siquirres, Costa Rica. 

 1565 Rh i nobothrvum Bovall i i — Pons, Kasmera, Univ. Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 2: 55> f'gs. 



Distribution: Honduras, . Costa Rica, Panama, northwestern Colombia and Ecuador, northwestern 

 Venezuela. 



RHINOBOTHRYUM LENTIGINOSUM (Scopoli) 



1785 Coluber Lent iq i nosus Scopoli, Deliciae Florae et Faunae Insubricae, 3= *1> pl- 20, fig. 2. 



Type-locality: None given. 

 I83O Coluber macrorh i nus Wagler, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 186. Type-locality: "America?" |_This name was 



credited to Boie by Wagler ("H. Boie in Mus. Lugd."), and served as type species of 



Rh inobothryum , but we find no evidence that Boie ever published a description of the species, 



so it must be assigned to WaglerJ. 



I85* Rh i nobothryum lent i g inosum — Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril, Erp. Gen., J: IO6I. 

 Distribution: Basins of R'os Amazon and Paraguay in tropical South America, 



