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Liophis reginae semilineatus (Wagler) 1824. 
SYNONYM: oligolepis Boulenger. 
DISTRIBUTION: Forested Amazon Basin of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, 
Peru, Bolivia, and Brasil; also Atlantic rainforest of Brasil (see 
figure 2, p. 118, Dixon 1983). 
Liophis reginae zweifeli (Roze) 1959. 
DISTRIBUTION: Montane rainforests of Venezuela and Trinidad (see figure 
25 (ps 218. Dixony1983):. 
Liophis sagittifer (Jan) 
L. (iopeltis) sagittifer Jan 1863:82. Type locality: Mendoza, Argentina. 
Liophis pulcher Steindachner 1867:267. Type locality: Chile (in error). 
Rhadinaea modesta Koslowsky 1896:453. Type locality: Salta, Argentina. 
Liophis trifasciatus Werner 1899:114. Type locality: Paraguay. 
Zamensis argentinus Bréthés 1917:93. Type locality: La Banda, Santiago del 
Estero, Argentina. 
Liophis sagittifer, Dixon 1980:15. 
DISTRIBUTION: Foothills of the Andes of Bolivia and Argentina, south to 
Chubut, Argentina, north and east into the Monte and Chaco of Argentina and 
Paraguay. (see figure 2, p. 391, Dixon and Thomas 1982). 
SUBSPECIES: Two. 
1.a Dorsum uniform brownish gray, olive gray, or with 
obscure undulating middorsal dark line and some 
indication of a lateral dark line bordering the upper 
edge of scale row three; 81% of population with 
19-1917, SCALE CS OWS. ccpas dearegs 2ufonkete <eauretet > '« sagittifer modestus 
b Dorsum with large to median sized paravertebral reddish 
black to black blotches from nape to tail; often with 
secondary row of intercalary black blotches laterally, 
and occasionally a median series of dorsal blotches 
anteriorly; 100% of population with 19-19-15 scale 
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Liophis sagittifer sagittifer (Jan) 1863. 
SYNONYMS: pulcher Steindachner; argentinus Bréthés. 
DISTRIBUTION: Monte of Patagonia, from Tucuman, south to the state of 
Chubut, Argentina. (see figure 2, p. 391, Dixon and Thomas 1982). 
: Liophis sagittifer modestus (Koslowsky) 1896. 
SYNONYM: trifasciatus Werner. 
