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Liophis elegantissimus (Koslowsky) 
Rhadinaea elegantissima Koslowsky 1895:115. Type locality: Sierra de la 
Ventana, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
Liophis elegantissimus, Amaral 1925. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known from five localities within the Sierra de la Ventana, 
Buenos Aires, Argentina (see figure 1, p. 566, Dixon 1985). 
Liophis epinephelus Cope 
Liophis epinephelus Cope 1862:78. Type locality: Truando, Colombia. 
Liophis reqinae albiventris Jan 1863:294. Type locality: Western Andes of 
Ecuador (fra Lacutunga e Guayaquil) (= Latacunga?). 
Liophis reginae quadrilineata Jan 1863:295. Type locality: Ecuador. 
Ophimorphus alticolus Cope 1868:102. Type locality: Quito Valley, Ecuador. 
Zamensis ater Giinther 1872:22. Type locality: Biscra, Algeria (in error). 
Liophis fraseri Boulenger 1894:131. Type locality: Western Ecuador. 
Liophis bimaculatus Cope 1899:71. Type locality: Colombia. 
Liophis bipraeocularis Boulenger 1903:351. Type locality: Facatativa, 
Colombia. 
Liophis opisthotaenia Boulenger 1908:114. Type locality: Mérida, Venezuela. 
Liophis pseudocobella Peracca 1914:99. Type locality: Angeldpolis, Colombia. 
Liophis cobella alticolus Amaral 1931:87. Type locality: Jericé, Colombia. 
Liophis taeniurus juvenalis Dunn 1937:213. Type locality: San Jose, Costa 
Rica. 
Liophis bimaculatus lamonae Dunn 1944:486. Type locality: Sonsén, Antioquia, 
Colombia. 
Liophis epinephelus ecuadorensis Laurent 1949:8. Type locality: Ecuador. 
DISTRIBUTION: Trans-Andean South America from Venezuela to Peru; Cis-Andean 
South America at and above 2,200 m in Ecuador and Pert; also Central America 
from central Costa Rica through Panama (see figures 1, 2, and 3, pp. 133-135, 
Dixon 1983). 
SUBSPECIES: Eight. 
l.a Lateral black tail stripe absent, dorsal and ventral 
surfaces of body and tail alternately marked with 
red, and black 2. of. LPS oe . Pode cheted rere s COR es oo Fe SNOT Cnet 2 
b Lateral black tail stripe present, dorsum may be banded, 
spotted, flecked, or almost unicolor, belly checkered 
with«black. or notaas...iseo.tece bites. Pbsmeraeeseer ss eee ose es. 3 
2:a Subcalidailis <547.. 5 ..c5.d0da0 se aetem serene epinephelus pseudocobellus 
breSubcaudall’s; 5540. 32 .ntw ance... Gotaapeo.. See epinephelus juvenalis 
32a” Ventyalls <165) 2.5. ais cecaicictave evarshe oitaccve iia ieregel cue har enrertetetarrerenhets lehetenete 4 
bePVenthal'SwSll65) .. sy. eis oc whajetore s <careus euspereererets epinephelus bimaculatus 
