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REPTILIA: SERPENTES: BOIDAE * "A TROPIDOPHIS 



TROPIDOPHIS Bibron 



1840 Tropidophis Bibron, in de la Sagra, Hist. Fis. Pol. Nat. Cuba, Spanish Ed., 8: pi. 23, also vol. 



4, 1843: 125. Type-species: Boa melanura Schlegel. 

 1840 Leionotus Bibron, in de la Sagra, Hist. Fis. Pol. Nat. Cuba, Spanish Ed., 8: pi. 24, also vol. 



4, I843: 125. Type-species: Leionotus maculatus Bibron, 

 1842 Unqal ia Gray, Zool. Misc., 1842: 46. Type-species: Boa melanura Schlegel. 

 IB43 Erycops i s Fitzinger, Systema Reptilium; 2]. Type-species: Boa melanura Schlegel. 

 18S6 Nothophis Hallowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I856: I56. Type-species: Nothophis bicarinatus 



Hallowell. 

 1868 Ungual ia Cope (invalid emendation of Unqalia Gray). Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868: 128. 



Distribution: West Indies; Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil. 



Content: Fifteen species, all but three of which are extral im i tal, according to latest summary 

 by Stimson, Das TierrSich, 85, I965, 32. 



Key to the species Clave de especies 



1. Dorsal scales smooth 2 1. Escamas dorsales lisas- 2 



Dorsal scales keeled taczanowskvi Escamas dorsales carenadas taczanowskvi 



2. Scale rows at midbody 23; ventrals 200 2. Escamas al medio del cuerpo en 23 filas; ven- 



battersbvi t rales 200 battersbyi 



Scale rows at midbody 21; ventrals I78 Escamas al medio del cuerpo en 21 filas; ven- 



pauc isguamis t rales 1/8 paucisguamis 



TROPIDOPHIS BATTERSBYI Laurent 



1949 Tropidophis battersbvi Laurent. Bull. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belg., 25(9): 6, figs. 10-12. Type- 

 locality: Ecuador. 



Distribution: Known only from holotype, which has no definite locality data. 



TROPIDOPHIS PAUCISOUAMIS (Miiller) 



1901 Unqalia paucisguamis MiJller. in Schenkel, Verb. Na turf orsch. Ges. Basel, I3: 154. Type-locality: 



Tropical America. 



1901 Unqali a brasiliensis Andersson. BihangTill K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handlingar, 27(4, No. 5): 4, 



pi. 1, fig. 1. Type-locality: Brazil. 



Distribution: Espirito Santo, Rio de Janeiro and SSo Paulo, Brazil, Northeastern Peru. 



TROPIDOPHIS TACZANQWSKYI ( Ste i ndachner) 



1880 Unqalia Taczanowskvi Ste indachner, Sitz. Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 80 (2): $22, 1 



pi. Type-locality: Tambillo, Peru. 

 1928 Tropidophis taczanowskyi — Stull, Occ Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 195: 21. 



Distribution: Peru and Ecuador; Brazil? 



