Distribution: eastern area of Guiana Shield exclusive of 
Venezuelan tepui region. 
L. cobella dyticus Dixon. 
1983 L. cobella dyticus Dixon, Ibid. 17:159. Type-locality: 
Peru, Loreto, Monte Carmelo (= Requena). Distribution: 
western Amazon basin, from Lomalinda, Colombia, south 
to Buenavista, Bolivia, & east to Porto Velho, Brasil. 
L. cobella taeniogaster Jan. 
1863 Liophis taeniogaster Jan, Ibid. 2:292. Type-locality: 
Brasil. 
Liophis cobella taeniogaster Dixon, 1:9)8i3e malabiHidy. CLs 159.5 
Distribution: Brasil, south of Amazon, to central Brasil 
and coastal Bahia (a re-interpretation of Dixon’s text 
- PEV). 
L. cobella trebbaui Roze. 
1958 Liophis trebbaui Roze, Acta Biol. Venezuela 2:262. 
Type-locality: Auyantepui, Estado Bolivar, Venezuela. 
1958 Liophis ingeri Roze, Ibid. 2:303. Type-locality: 
Chimanta Tepui, Estado Bolivar, Venezuela, 1900 om. 
Liophis cobella trebbaui Dixon, 19183)" ab baidie 7 e519 
Distribution: Chimanta and Auyan Tepuis, and Km marker 144 
El Dorado-Santa Elena [de Uairen] Hwy, Bolivar, 
Venezuela. 
L. coralliventris (Boulenger). Distribution: lower valley of 
Rio Paraguay. 
L. dilepis Cope, fide Hoge, Russo, Santos & Furado, 1981, 
Mem. Inst. Butantan [1978/79] 42/43:89. Distribution: 
open formations of Brasil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and 
northern Argentina. 
L. epinephelus epinephelus Cope. Distribution: lower 
elevations of mountains of western Panama east to 
Colombian lowlands and most of Colombian inter-Andean 
valleys to elevations of 1500 m; also south to extreme 
morthern Ecuador along Pacific coast. 
L. epinephelus albiventris Jan, fide Dixon, 1983, In Rhodin & 
Miyata Ceds.'), Advance... Herpetol.. Evol. Biol. 2138. 
1863 Liophis reginae var. albiventris Jan. 
1863 Liophis reginae var. quadrilineata Jan, Tbitidie = 27202 9'5ie 
Type-locality: Ecuador & Colombia. 
1868 Opheomorphus alticolus Cope. 
1872 Zamenis ater Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 9:2. 
Type-locality: Biscra, Algeria. 
Distribution: western Ecuador from sea level to 2600 m 
in Andean valleys. 
L. epinephelus bimaculatus Cope, fide wDiixont, 1.9:83i,9 Lbtdi: 138. 
1899 Liophis bimaculatus Cope. 
1903 Liophis bipraeocularis Boulenger. 
1984 Leimadophis epinephelus ecuadoriensis Laurent, Bull. 
Insts Roy. Hist. Nat. Belgique 25:8. Type-locality: 
Ecuador. 
Distribution: high (2600-3300 m) Andean valleys of western 
Venezuela, central Colombia, south to northern Peru. 
L. eueeeiss fraseri Boulenger, fide Dixon, 1983, Ibid. 
:138. Distribution: middle elevations of eastern and 
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