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REPTILIA: SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE "At * * * STORERIA 



STORERIA Baird and Girard 



1853 Storer la Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept.: 135- Type-species: Tropi donotus Dekay i Holbrook. 

 Distribution: North America and Mexico into Guatemala and Honduras. 

 Content: Two species, one of which ( occ ip i tomaculata Storer) is ex tral i mi tal. 



STORERIA DEKAY I (Holbrook) 



1842 Tropidonotus Dekayi Holbrook, North American Herpetology, Ed. 2, 4: 53, pi. 14. Type-locality: 

 Massachusetts and New York; restricted to Cambridge, Massachusetts, according to Schmidt, 

 Checklist of North American Amphibians and Reptiles, Ed. 6, 1553> ^^5- 



18S3 Storeria Dekayi — Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept.: 135. 



Distribution: Eastern North America west to Kansas, south through Mexico into Guatemala and 

 Honduras. 



Content: Eight subspecies, seven of which ( anomala Duges, dekay i Holbrook, 1 i mnetes Anderson, 

 temporal i nea ta Trapido, texana Trapido, v icta Hay, and wr i qhtorum Trapido) are ex tral im i tal. 



Storer ia dekay i trop i ca Cope 



1865 Storeria tropica Cope. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 22 (l884): I75. Type-locality: El Peten, 



Guatemala . 

 1565 Storeria dekayi trop ica — Saba th and Sabath, Amer. Midi. Nat., 81: 154. 



Distribution: Low and moderate elevations of Caribbean slope of northern and central 

 Guatemala to northern Honduras. 



