16 
l.a Dorsolateral black stripe begins on the nape and is 
continuous to the tail, head more or less uniform 
in color, without distinct white parietal spots, 
maxillary teeth vary from 14-17 (x= 15.3) 
SS ter es ee ae od ee melanotus (subsp.) 
b Dorsolateral black stripe begins posterior to nape, 
interrupted anteriorly by nape bands or spots that 
are separated by light colored interspaces, parietals 
with white diagonal marks extending to the posterior 
corner of mouth, maxillary teeth vary from 14-21 
(ha8 17. Oh. cae eee cutee so bis inatos ee SOE SF melanotus melanotus 
Liophis meridionalis (Schenkel) 
Aporophis lineatus meridionalis Schenkel 1901:160. Type locality: Mte. 
Sociedad, Bemalcue, Paraguay. 
Aporophis lineatus lativittatus Mueller 1908:74. Type locality: San Fermin 
(Chiquitos), Bolivia. 
Liophis meridionalis, Dixon 1980:11. 
DISTRIBUTION: Central Brasil and northern Bolivia south to southern Paraguay, 
northeastern tip of Argentina, and extreme southeastern Brasil. (figure e, p. 
9, Michaud and Dixon, 1987). 
Liophis miliaris (Linnaeus) 
Coluber miliaris Linnaeus 1758:220. Type locality: India (in error). 
Coluber merremii Wied 1821:121. Type locality: Pedro d’Alcantara, Bahia, 
Brasil. 
C. (oluber) dictyodes Wied 1824:668. Type locality: Cabo Frio, Rio de 
Janeiro, Brasil. 
Coluber bicolor Reuss 1834:145. Type locality: Ilheus, Bahia, Brasil. 
Ablabes purpurans Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril 1854:312. Type locality: Mana, 
Cayenne. (French Guiana) 
Coronella australis Giinther 1858:40. Type locality: Australia (in error). 
Opheomorphus merremii semiaureus Cope 1862:348. Type locality: Paraguay. 
Liophis cobella collaris Jan 1863:293. Type locality: South America. 
Liophis reginae ornata Jan 1863:295. Type locality: Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
Coronella orientalis Giinther 1864:236. Type locality: Dekkan (in error). 
Rhadinaea chrysostoma Cope 1868:104. Type locality: Napo or Marafion, Ecuador 
(= Peru). 
Coronella poecilolaemus Giinther 1872:19. Type locality: Upper Rio Amazonas. 
Opheomorphus fuscus Cope 1885:190. Type locality: Sao Jodo da Monte Negro, 
Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. 
Rhadinaea orina Griffin 1916:195. Type locality: Sierras of Bolivia (in 
error). 
Dromicus amazonicus Dunn 1922:219. Type locality: Santarém, Brasil. 
Rhadinaea merremii natricodes Werner 1926:246. Type locality: unknown. 
Liophis mossoroensis Hoge and Lima-Verde 1972:215. Type locality: Mossoro, 
Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil. 
Liophis miliaris, Amaral 1926:78. 
