In key, insignissimus (couplet 24) is listed under Rhadinaea, not 
Liophis. 
1933 
L. almadensis (Wagler). 
1824 Natrix almada Wagler, Spec. Nov. Serp. Brasil :30. 
Type-locality: Almada, Bahia, Brasil. 
Natrix almadenis Wagler, 1824, Ibid. :pl. 10. 
1858 Liophis conirostris Guenther, Cat. Golub. Sin. British 
Mus. :46. Type-locality: Bahia, Brasil. 
1863 Liophis verecundus Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Fisiol. 2:300. 
Type-locality: none given. 
Liophis wagleri (part) Jan, 1863, Ibid. 2:297.;, based on 
Natrix almadensis Wagler. 
1882 Liophis (Lygophis) Ygraecum Peters, Sitzber. Ges. 
Naturf. Fr. Berlin 1882:129. Type Locality: 
Guaratingueta, Sao Paulo, Brasil. 
1906 Trigonocephalus scolecomorphus Bacque, Rev. Mus. La 
Plata 12:116. Type-locality: Ascuncion, Paraquay. 
L. albiceps (Amaral) = Rhadinaea decipiens (Gunther, 1893), 
fide Myers, 1974, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 
W533 '=262). 
L. almadensis (Wagler), fide Dixon, 1980, Ibid. 31:4. 
Leimadophis almadensis Hoogmoed & Grueber, L983), 
Spixiana Suppl. 9:331; designation of lectotype. 
Distribution: Atlantic forests of Brasil, southeastern 
Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, and northern Argentina. 
L. amarali Wettstein. Incertae sedis, fide Dixon, 1980, Ibid. 
31:4. Distribution: Bahia and Minas Gerais to Santa 
Catarina, Brasil. 
L. amoenus (Jan). Incertae sedis, fide Dixon, 1980, Ibid. 
31:5. Distribution: Atlantic forest of Brasil. 
L. andinus Dixon, Ann. Carnegie Mus. SpA AA Ne 
Type-locality:Bolivia, Cochabamba, Incachaca, 2500 m. 
Distribution: known only from type locality. 
L. breviceps breviceps Cope. 
1861 Liophis breviceps Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Philadelphia 1860:252. Type-locality: Surinam. 
Liophis breviceps breviceps, Dixon, 1983, J. Herpetol. 
I es Ee ys ie 
Distribution: forested parts of the Amazon basin in 
Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Peru, and similar areas of 
French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam and Venezuela. 
L. breviceps canaima Roze. 
1957 Liophis canaima Roze, Bol. Mus. Cien. Nat. Caracas 
[1955] 1:188. Type-locality: Ugeto, Territorio Federal 
de Amazonas, Venezuela. 
Liophis breviceps canaimus Dixon, 19837 Lbid.. i723 1l53.. 
Distribution: region of Rio Ugueto, Amazonas, Venezuela. 
L. chrysostomus (Cope, 1868). Revalidated by Dixon & Soini, 
1977, Milwaukee Public Mus. Contrib. Biol. Geol. 
12:1-91 = Dromicus amazonicus Dunn, 1922 incertae sedis 
fide Peters & Orejas-Miranda, 1970. = L. miliaris 
chrysostomus, fide Dixon, 1983, Ibid. (3):800. 
L. cobella cobella (Linnaeus, 1758.) 
Liophis cobella cobella Dixon, 19'33;,. Lboid. lyse. 
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