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195, from Tucacas (Municipio Silva) . • 



Distribution in Venezuela: Not records exist from Venezuela. This species 

 is only known from the Netherland Antilles (Peters & Donoso-Barros . 1970. 

 Idem) . 



Current Status: This record needs for confirmation of specific identity. 

 A human introduction could be possible. 



Family Viperidae 



Bothxops medusa. (Sternfeld, 1920) 

 Record: No specimens had been collected till date within Falcon. 

 Distribution in Venezuela: Sensu Peters & Orejas-Miranda (1970. U. S. 

 Natnl. Mus . Bull., 297:1-347), this species occur in the Coastal Range, 

 northern Venezuela, with a westernward direction including the state of 

 Carabobo which has border with Falcon and a homogeneous climate and 

 ecological conditions with adjacent state of Falcon. 



Current Status: This species could reply the distribution of Bothrops 

 venezuelensis. 



Family Anomalepididae 



HclmLxitophls flawtsrmi na tus (Peters, 1857) 

 Record: Currently, no specimens had been collected till date within 

 Falcon . 



Distribution in Venezuela: Roze (1966) reported specimens of this species 

 from central portion of Coastal Range (in northern Venezuela) and from 

 state of Zulia, in far western Venezuela. 



Current Status: This species is reported along all Falcon except in the 

 Peninsula de Paraguana (see References), but no voucher are currently 

 extant . 



References: Lancini (1979. Idem); Lancini & Kornacker (1989. Idem); Roze 

 [1966. Idem) . 



Family Colubridae 



Lsptodeira. septentxion^lj-s om^ta (Bocourt, 1884) 

 Record: No museum record had been found yet, but in MBUCV, reptiles 

 section (catalogue not seen) would be stored the specimen mentioned by 

 Roze (1970. See References). 



Distribution in Venezuela: Known from northwestern Venezuela (state of 

 Zulia and Falcon) . 



Current Status: Reported from the extreme western Falcon (see 

 References i . 



References: Roze (1970. Ciencia y Fantasia sobre las Serpientes de 

 Venezuela. Edit. Fondo Cult. Cient. Caracas); Lancini (1979. Idem). 



SPECIES ERRONEOUSLY REPORTED OR DOUTFUL RECORDS FROM THE STATE OF FALCON 



L^ptodactylus hylaedactylus (Cope, 18 68) 

 Reported by: Gines (1959. Idem); Rivero (1963. Idem). 

 Distribution in Venezuela: Reported in Caripito, state of Monagas, 

 eastern Venezuela (sensu La Marca, 1992) . 



Current Status: No specimens )cnown from Falcon. This taxon is currently 

 named Adenomera hylaedactyla. We consider this a mistalcen report. 



Byla. boaleng-srx (Cope, 1887) 

 Reported by: Rivero (1961. Idem;; Rivero (1963. Idem). 



