Coluber carlnatus. Chironius carinatus. Fitzinger 1826. Neue Class. Rept.:3l Central 
America and tropical South America; Guadalupe, St. Vincent Isl..Trinidad. 
Coluber coralllnus. Liophis triscalis. Boulenger 1894. Cat. Sn. British Mus. 2:129. Caribbean 
South America and Curagao. 
Coluber ovlvorus. ??Elaphe vulpina. See Klauber 1948. Copeia 1948:12. North central 
North America. Coluber exolitus. Chironius exoletus. Hoge, Romano, and Cordeiro 1976/77. 
Mem. Inst. Butantan 40/41:41. Western Amazon Basin in Peru and Brasil. 
Coluber sltula. Elaphe situla. Mertens 1923. Senckenbergiana 5:208. Southern Italy and 
major Mediterranean islands into southwestern Asia. 
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Coluber triscalis. Liophis triscalis. See Coluber corallinus on p. 223. 
Coluber lemnlscatus. Micrurus lemniscatus. Beebe 1919. Zoologica (NV) 2:216. Trinidad, 
Venezuela to the Guianas and the Amazon Basin. 
Coluber annulatus. Leptodeira annulata. Fitzinger 1843. Syst. Rept. :27. M6xico to 
Argentina. 
Coluber dlpsas. ?? 
Coluber pellas. Chrysopelea pelias. Andersson 1899. Bih. Rung. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 
24(6):35. Malaysia to Borneo and Java. 
Coluber tyria ?? Andersson 1899. Bih. Rung. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 24(6):30 stated that 
the type apparently no longer exists. Boulenger 1893. Cat. Sn. British Mus. 1:407 put ? C. tyria as 
a synonym of Zamenis nummifer, but such could only have been a guess from the limited 
description given by Linnaeus. 
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Coluber jugularls. Coluber jugularis. Linnaeus. Southeastern Europe and western Asia. 
Coluber petola. [ Oxyrhopus] petola. Ldnnberg Bih. Rung. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 
22(4) :7. Mexico to Ecuador, eastward in northern South America. 
Coluber molurus. Python molurus. Gray 1842. Zool. Misc.:4. Pakistan to Java. 
Coluber ahaetulla. Leptophis ahaetulla. Bell 1825. Zool. J. 2:328. Clarified by Stejneger 
1933. Copeia 1933:202. Southern Mexico to Ecuador and central Argentina east of the Andes. 
Coluber petolarius. [Oxyrhopus] petola. See Coluber petola above. 
Coluber haje. Naja haje. See Coluber niveus on p. 223. 
Coluber filiformis. Unidentifiable. See Oliver 1948. Bull. A. M. N. H. 92:169. 
Coluber pullatus. Spilotes pullatus. Wagler 1830. Nat. Syst. Amph.:179. Southern Mexico 
to Argentina. 
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Coluber hlppocrepls. Coluber hippocrepis. Linnaeus. Southwestern Europe to north¬ 
western Africa. 
Coluber mlnervae. Liophis lineatus. Dixon 1980. Cont. Biol. Geol. Milwaukee Publ. Mus. 
(31 ):10. Panama; South America west of Andes to northern Argentina. 
Coluber cinereus. Liophis cobella ?? Dixon 1980. Cont. Biol. Geol. Milwaukee Pub. Mus. 
(31 ):6. See Coluber cobella on p. 218. 
Coluber viridissimus., Philodryas viridissimus. Boulenger 1896. Cat. Sn. British Mus. 3:129. 
Southern Venezuela and the Guianas to Argentina. 
Coluber mucosus. Ptyas mucosus. Cope 1860. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 12:563. 
Pakistan to Taiwan and Java. 
Coluber cenchoa. Imantodes cenchoa. Dum6ril 1853. M6m. Acad. Sci. Paris 23:507. 
Southern Mexico to Bolivia and Paraguay. 
