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Coluber llneatus. Liophis lineatus. Dixon 1980. Cont. Biol. Geol. Milwaukee Pub. Mus. 
(31 ):29. Panama. 
Coluber naja. Naja naja. Sworder 1922. Singapore Nat. (2):71. Iran and southern Russia to 
southern China, the Philippines, and Indonesia. 
Coluber padera ?? Andersson 1899 Bih. Kung. Swensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 24(6):29 stated 
that the type could not be identified, but that another specimen from the Museum 
Drottingholmense and now at the Royal Museum in Stockholm was labeled Coluber padera and is 
identical with Linnaeus's Coluber canus (=Pseudaspis canus). 
Coluber canus. Pseudaspis cana. Cope 1864. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 16:168. Kenya 
and Angola southward in Africa. 
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Coluber slbllans. Psamnophis sibilans. Boie 1827. Isis von Oken 20:547. Africa. 
Coluber latlcaudatus. Laticauda laticauda. Stejneger 1907. Bull. U.S.N.M. (58):402. Warm 
seas from Bay of Bengal and Sri Lanka to Australia, Melanesia and Polynesia to Japan. 
Coluber slrtalls. Thamnophis sirtalis. Garman 1892. Bull. Essex Inst. 24:104. Klauber(l948 
Copeia 1948:9) pointed out that the description really was for T. sauritus. That application has 
been officially suppressed. Much of North America and northern M6xico. 
Coluber atrox. Bothrops atrox. Lichtenstein 1856. Nomencl. Rept. et Amph. Mus. Zool. Ber. 
:35.Northern Bolivia and northern Brasil to Colombia and Venezuela east of the Andes. 
Coluber slbon. Sibon nebulata. Fitzinger 1826. Neue Class. Rept. :31. Southern Mexico into 
northern South America. 
Coluber nebulatus. Sibon nebulata. See Coluber sibon above. 
Coluber fuscus. Chironius fuscus. Amaral 1929. Mem. Inst. Butanatan 4:161. Panama to 
Peru, the Guianas and central Brasil. 
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Coluber saturnlnus. Chironius fuscus. See Coluber fuscus above. 
Coluber candldus. Bungarus candidus. Cantor 1847. Cat. Rept. Malay Pen.:113. Thailand to 
Java. 
Coluber niveus. Najahaje. Merrem 1820. Tent. Syst. Amph. :148. Much of Africa. 
Coluber scaber. Dasypeltis scabra. Gunther 1858. Cat. Colubrine Sn. Coll. British Mus..142. 
Egypt to Gambia and the Cape of South Africa. Many authors over the years have used D. scabra, 
but equally many have used D. scaber. In 1952 Gans and Loveridge submitted an application to 
ICZN to validate the use of Dasypeltis and also requested placement of the trivial name scaber on 
the Official List of Specific Trivial Names in Zoology (Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 6:347-348). In 1956 that 
application was approved by the ICZN-Opinion 387 (Bull. Zooi. Nomencl. 12:241). Unfortunately 
Gans, in his doctoral dissertation on Dasypeltis (Ann. Mus. Royal du Congo Beige, ser. 8 Scien. 
Zool. 74:1-237.), used the name Dasypeltis scabra. His synonymy listed 58 uses of scaber and 
60 of scabra. Apparently since that time everyone has used scabra. Gans (personal comm.) does 
not recall why he did not follow the opinion rendered in his favor. The name should be Dasypeltis 
scaber. I base this interpretation on Article 31 (b)(i) of the Code which says that where the author 
of a species-group name did not indicate where he regarded it as a noun or as an adjective and 
where it may be regarded as either and evidence of usage is not decisive, it is to be treated as a 
noun in apposition to the name of its genus; its spelling is not changed if it is combined with a 
generic name of a different gender. What rulings will be made in the forthcoming 4th ed. of the 
Code regarding agreement in gender of genus and species was not clearly established at the 
1990 ICZN meeting. 
