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REPTILIA: SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE "At * * "^ SYNOPHIS 



SYNOPHIS Peracca 



I856 Svnoph is Peracca, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Torino, 11 (266); 1. Type-species: Synoph i s 

 bicolor Peracca. 



Distribution: Ecuador and Colombia. 



Content: Three species, according to the most recent revision by Bogert, Senck. Biol., 45> 156*' 



Key to the species Clave de especies 



1. Scales in I5 rows at midbody- 2 1. Escamas en I5 filas al medio del cuerpo- 2 



Scales in 21 to 23 rows at midbody lasalle i Escamas en 21 a 23 tilas en el medio del 



cuerpo lasallei 



2. One postocular: no loreal m i ops o ,, 1 • 1 t ■ „_ 



•^ ' . — -»- 2. Una posocular; sin loreal miops 



Two postoculars: loreal present b 1 color „ , , , , w ^ 



'^ ' ^ ' — Dos posoculares; loreal present b icolor 



SYNOPHIS BICOLOR Peracca 



1896 Svnophis bicolor Peracca, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Torino, 11 (266): 1. Type-locality: 



South America. 

 1964 Svnophis bicolor — Bogert, Senck. Biol., 15: 515. 



Distribution: Amazonian Ecuador. 



SYNOPHIS LASALLEI (Mar fa) 



19'50 Diaphorolepis lasallei MarTa. Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cien., 7: 149, fig. 1, 2 figs, in text. Type- 

 locality; northwest of Alban, Prov. Cundi namarca, Colombia, 2200 m. 

 1964 Svnophis lasallei — Bogert, Senck. Biol., 4$: 5I8. 



Distribution: Amazonian lowlands of Colombia and Ecuador. 



SYNOPHIS MIOPS Boulenger 



1896 Synophis miops Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, I898: II5, pi. 12, fig. 1. Type-locality: 

 Paramba, western Ecuador. 



Distribution: Known only from type locality. 



