50 
Coluber mycterlzans. Ahaetulla mycterizans. Stejneger 1933. Copeia 1933:203 said that 
although assigned to that name earlier, confusion of the identity of five specimens invalidates 
early usage. Thailand to Java. 
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Coluber caerulescens. ?? Andersson 1899. Bih. Kung. Swensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 24(6):26 
stated that only one of the original five specimens labeled C. caerulescens remains and it "is a 
Herpetodryas fuscusf', whose scalation differed greatly from Linnaeus' s description. 
Coluber arges ?? In Syst. Nat. XII, Linnaeus changes to argus . The description, based on a 
figure from Seba's Thesaurus, says, among other things, no scales noted. Boulenger 1893 Cat. 
Sn. British Mus. 1:82 regarded C. argus as a mythical creature. 
Anguls blpes. Scelotes bipes. Gray 1845. Cat. Spec. Liz. British Mus. :123. South Africa. 
Anguls meleagrls. Acontias meleagris. Merrem 1820. Tent. Syst. Amph.:89. South Africa. 
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Anguls colubrlna. Eryx colubrinus. Flower 1933. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1933:804. Egypt 
to Kenya and Niger. 
Anguls jaculus. Eryx jaculus. Daudin 1803. Hist. Nat. Rept. 7:251. Southwestern Europe, 
western Asia, and northern Africa. 
Anguls maculata. Cylindrophis maculatus. Boulenger 1893. Cat. Sn. British Mus. 1:136. Sri 
Lanka. 
Anguls reticulata. Typhlops reticulatus. Dum6ril and Bibron. Erp. G6n. 6:282. Tropical South 
America east of the Andes. 
Anguls cerastes. Eryx jaculus. see Anguis jaculus above. 
Anguls lumbrlcalls. Typhlops lumbricalis. Oppel 1811. Ordn., Fam. Gatt. Rept. :55. Cuba, 
Hispaniola, Bahamas, and introduced into Florida and Guyana. 
Anguls latlcauda. ?? Andersson 1899. Bih. Kung. Swensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 24(6):32 
indicated that the type was no longer to be found. 
Anguls scytale. Anilius scytale. Oken 1816. Lehr. Naturgesch. :283. Venezuela to Peru, the 
Guianas, and northern Brasil. 
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Anguls eryx. ? Anguis fragilis (part) according to Boulenger 1885. Cat. Liz. British Mus. 2:86. 
See A. fragilis below. 
Anguls fragilis. Anguis fragilis. Linnaeus. Europe to the Caucasus and Iran; northwestern 
Africa. 
Amphlsbaena fulglnosa. Linnaeus. Panama and northern South America. 
Amphlbaena alba. Linnaeus. Panama; Trinidad; northern South America east of Andes, south 
to northern Paraguay. 
Caecllla tentaculata. Caecilia tentaculata (part). Linnaeus. Panama ; northern South America 
east of Andes to central Brasil. 
Caecllla tentaculata. Caecilia gracilis (part). Shaw 1802. Gen. Zool. or Syst. Nat. Hist. 3, pt. 
2:597-598. Guianas and Peru; probably also the Amazon Basin. 
Caecllla glutlnosa. Ichthyophis glutinosus. Cantor 1847. J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Calcutta. 
16:1059. Sri Lanka. 
