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REPTILIA: SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE "^ *" TROPIDODIPSAS 



TROPIDODIPSAS Gunther 



1858 Trop i dodi psas Gunther, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus.: 180. Type-species: Tropi dodipsas fasc iata Gijnther. 



I863 Galedon Jan, Elenco Sist. Ofidi: 55- Type-species; Galedon annular is Jan. 



1878 Trop idogeoph i s Muller, Verh. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, 6: 411. Type-species: Geophis annulatus 



Peters. 

 1887 Dipeltophis Cope, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 32: 5I. Type-species: Leptoqnathus albocinctus Fischer. 



Distribution: Mexico and Central America. 



Content: About ten species, of which only three are found within limits of this work. 



Key to the species Clave de especies 



1. Infralabials usually eight or more 2 1. Normalmente ocho mas i nf ralab iales 2 



infralabials normally seven fasc iata Normalmente siete i nf ralab iales fasc iata 



2. Darl< annuli on body fewer than 25 sartor i i 2. Menos de 25 anillos oscuros en el cuerpo 



Dark annuli on body more than 25 f ischer i sartor ii 



Mas de 25 anillos oscuros en el cuerpo- f i scheri 



TROPIDODIPSAS FASCIATA Gunther 



I858 Trop idod ipsas fasc iata Gunther, Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus.: 181. Type-locality: Mexico; restricted to 

 Chichen Itza, Yucatan, by Smith and Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sc i . Bull., 33, I95O, 352. 



Distribution: Guerrero on west and possibly Veracruz on east in Mexico to Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. 



Content: Three subspecies, of which two ( fasc iata Gunther and querreroens is Taylor) are 

 cxtral im i tal. 



Trop i dod i psas fasc iata subannulata (Muller) 



I887 Leptoanathus ( Trop idod ipsas ) subannulatus Muller, Ver. Nat. Ges. Basel, 8: 274, pi. 1, fig. 



5. Type-locality: probably Mexico; restricted to Chichen Itza, Yucatan, by Smith and 



Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33, I95O, 352; restriction rejected by Lynch and Smith, 



Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 6% I566, 72. 

 1942 Trop idod ipsas kidderi Stuart. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 55' 177» Type-locality: Finca 



Samac, 6 km west of Coban, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, about I5OO m. 

 1956 Trop idod ipsas fasc iata subannulata — /flvarez del Toro and Smith, Herpetolog i ca, 12: 14. 

 1966 T.[ rop idod ipsas j fasciata subannulata — Lynch and Smith, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 69: 72. 



Distribution: Upper elevations on Atlantic slope from southwestern Chiapas and southeastern 

 Oaxaca, Mexico, to Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. 



TROPIDODIPSAS FISCHERI Boulenger 



I885 Virq in ia fasc iata Fischer, Jahrb. Wiss. Anst. Hamburg, 2 (l884): 95' Type-locality: Guatemala. 

 I892 Trop i doclon ium annulatum Bocourt (preoccupied in Trop i dod i psas by annulatus Peters, I87O), Le 



Naturaliste, (2) 14: I32. Type-locality: Godinez, northeastern slope of Volcan Atitlan, 



Guatemala, 215I m. 

 I894 Trop i dod i psas f i scher i Boulenger (substitute name for Virginia fasc iata Fischer, preoccupied in 



Tropidodipsas ). Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus., 2: 296. 



Distribution: Intermediate elevations on plateau of Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, southwestern 

 Guatemala, to Oaxaca, Mexico. 



TROPIDODIPSAS SARTOR I I 



1863 Tropidodipsas sartorii Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I863: 100. Type-locality: Mirador, 

 Veracruz, Mex i co. 



Distribution: San Luis Potosi and Chiapas, Mexico to Guatemala, on both slopes. 

 Content: Three subspecies, one of which ( macdouoall i Smith) is extral im i tal. 



