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Liophis lineatus (Linnaeus) 
Coluber lineatus Linnaeus 1758:221. Type locality: Asia (in error) 
Coluber jaculatrix Linnaeus 1766:381. Type locality: Suriname 
Coluber terlineatus Lacépéde 1826:106. Type locality: none given. 
Liophis lineatus, Dixon 1980:10. 
SUBSPECIES: None recognized. 
DISTRIBUTION: Central Panama east through Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, 
Suriname, French Guiana, to the mouth of the Rio Amazonas, Brasil (Figure 1, 
p. 4, Michaud and Dixon 1987). A few specimens are known from near the port 
cities of Guayaquil and Esmeraldas, Ecuador, and are probably accidental 
introductions via the shipping trade. 
Liophis longiventris Amaral 
Liophis longiventris Amaral 1925:16. Type locality: none given, but probably 
the state of Mato Grosso, Brasil. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Rio Manjuro, Amazonas, Brasil, and from 
12°51’S - 51°46’W, Mato Grosso, Brasil (see figure 2, p. 154, Dixon 1983). 
Liophis maryellenae Dixon 
Liophis maryellenae Dixon 1985:295. Type locality: Annapolis, Goias, Brasil. 
DISTRIBUTION: Central, southeast Brasil, from Annapolis on the west, to Grado 
Mogol, on the east; from near Barreiras on the north, to Itambe do Dentro on 
the south (see figure 4, p. 188, Dixon 1987). 
Liophis melanotus (Shaw) 
Coluber melanotus Shaw 1802:534. Type locality: Cape of Good Hope, Africa (in 
error). 
Coluber raninus Merrem 1820:106. Type locality: none given. 
Coluber vittatus Hallowell 1845:242. Type locality: within 200 miles of 
Caracas, Colombia (actually in Venezuela). 
Liophis melanonotus Cope 1860:253. (replacement name for melanotus Shaw). 
Liophis melanotus, Dixon 1980:11. 
DISTRIBUTION: From both sides of the Andes in Central Colombia, northeast to 
northeastern Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago. 
SUBSPECIES: Possibly one, undescribed. 
