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REPTILIA: SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE "^ "A' STENORRHINA 



STENORRHINA Dumeril 



1853 Stenorrh i na Dumeril, Mem. Acad. Sci. Paris, 23: ^90. Type-species: Stenorh ina ventral i s 

 Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril, ISJA (nomen nudum in original description of genus). 



185^ Mi croph i s Hallowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 185*: 57- Type-species: Mi croph i s 

 qu i nquel i n iatus Hallowell. 



185* Stenorh ina Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril (emendation of Stenorrh i na Dumeril), Erp. Gen., 7: 865- 

 Type-species: Stenorh ina ventral i s Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril. 



I867 Bergen ia Ste indachner, Reise der Osterre ich i schen Fregatte Novara, Zool., Rept.: ')2, Type- 

 species: Bergen i a mex i cana Ste indachner. 



Distribution: Central Veracruz and Guerrero, Mexico, through Central America to Colombia, Venezuela 

 and Pacific Ecuador. 



Content: Two species. 



Key to the species Clave de especies 



1. Ventrals more than I6O f rem i n v 1 11 1 i 1. Ventrales mas de I6O f rem i n v i 11 i i 



Ventrals less than 160 degenhardt i i Ventrales menos de I6O deqenhardt i i 



STENORRHINA DEGENHARDT I I (Berthold) 



1846 Calamaria Degenhardtii Berthold, Abh. K. Ges. Wiss. Gottingen, 3: 8, pi. 1, figs. 3-4. Type- 

 locality: "Etwa 2° N.B. und 301° L . , " Popayan Province, Colombia. 

 1876 S[ tenorrhina ] deqenhardt i i — Cope, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., (2) 8 (I875): 142. 



Distribution: Mexico to Venezuela and Pacific Ecuador. 



Content: Three subspecies. 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Without temporal stripe 2 1. Sin linea temporal 2 



With temporal stripe degenhardt i i Con ifnea temporal deqenhardt i i 



2. Dorsum uniform grey in adults; belly with 2. Dorso gris uniforme en los adultos; vientre 



light spots on greyish ground coloi con manchas claras sobre fondo gris 



ocella ta ocellata 



Dorsum brownish in adults; belly with Pardo encima en adultos; vientre con 



black spots mex icana manchas negras mex icana 



Stenorrh i na degenhardt i i degenhardt i i (Berthold) 



I854 Stenorh i na ventral i s Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril, Erp. Gen., 7: 867. Type-locality: 



Coban, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. 

 1860 Stenorh ina Kenn icott iana Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860: 242. Type-locality: 



Isthmus of Panama. 

 I876 Stenorh ina degenhardt i i [^ deqenhardt i i J — Jan, Icon. Gen. Ophid.: Liv. 48, pi. 2, figs. ^-(>. 



Distribution: Panama to Pacific Colombia and Ecuador. 



Stenorrh ina deqenhardt i i mex icana (Ste i ndachner) 



I867 Bergen ia mex icana Ste i ndachner, Reise der Osterre i ch ischen Fregatte Novara, Zool., Rept.: 

 92, 3 figs. Type-locality: Mexico; restricted by Smith and Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. 

 Bull., 33, 1950, 347, to Cordoba, Veracruz, Mexico. 



1541 Stenorh ina mex icana — Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 27: 122. 



1943 Stenorhina degenhardtii mexicana — Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 93: 472. 



Distribution: Central Veracruz south to Guatemala. 



