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REPTILIA: SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE 'W ^ ^ ^ TRIPANURGOS 



Prepared by Joseph R. Bailey, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 



TRIPANURGOS Fitzinger 



I8A3 Tr ipanurqos Fitzinger, Systema Reptilium: 2], Type-species: Given as Dipsas leucocephala 

 Schlegel, which is same as Coluber leucocephalus Mil<an. 



Distribution: As for single known species. 



Content: One species. 



Comment: Trop i dod i psas leucomelas Werner, recently recognized as Tr i panurqos leucomelas by Downs, 

 Copeia, 1961, 386, is a member of the genus Oxyrhopus . 



TRIPANURGOS COMPRESSUS (Daudin) 



I8O3 Coluber compressus Daudin, Hist. Nat. Rept., 6: 247, Type-locality: Surinam. 



1820 Coluber leucocephalus Mikan, Delect. Fauna Flora Brasil: fig. 2 on unnumbered pi. Type-locality: 



Corcovado Mountain, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

 I856 Trypanurqos compressus — Boulenger, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 3= 58. 



Distribution: Discontinuous. Coastal strip of Brazil from Rio de Janeiro (city) to Sergipe. 

 Mouth of Amazon and central Bolivia to Trinidad and Panama. 



