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AMPHISBAENA 



3» Head immaculate or spotted; abdomen showing 3» Cabeza inmaculada o mancliada; abdomen pre- 



much less black tinan dorsum but still witli senta mucho menos negro que el dorso pero 



many spots ful i q i nosa aun con muchas manchas ful iq inosa 



Head almost always immaculate; abdomen Cabeza casi siempre inmaculada; abdomen 



scarcely spotted amazon ica escasamente manchado amazon ica 



4. Head as heavily pigmented as body var ia 4. Cabeza tan densamente pigmentada como el 



Head immaculate or with very little spot- cuerpo var ia 



ting wied i Cabeza inmaculada o escasamente manchada 



wied i 



Amph i sbaena ful i g i nosa ful i q i nosa Linnaeus 



iy68 Amph isbaena vulqar i s Laurenti, Synopsin Reptilium: 66. Type-locality: None given. 



1768 Amph i sbaena maqn i f i ca Laurenti, Synopsin Reptilium: 66. Type-locality: America. 



1768 Amph isbaena flava Laurenti, Synopsin Reptilium: 67. Type-locality: America. 



1844 Amph i sbaena Americana Gray, Cat. Tort., Croc, and Amphis. Brit. Mus.: 7"' Type- 

 locality: South America, Demerara, and Berbice; restricted to Berbice, Guyana, through 

 lectotype designation by Gans, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 135, 1967> 70' 



1551 Amph i sbaena ful iq inosa ful iq i nosa — Vanzolini, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 106: 60. 



Distribution: Trinidad to French Guiana, eastern Venezuela. 



Amph i sbaena ful i q i nosa amazon i ca Vanzolini 



I863 Amphisbaena dubia Rathl<e, Abh. Bayerischen Akad. Wiss. Math. Phys. CI., 9: 128. Type- 

 locality: None. 



1551 Amph i sbaena ful i q i nosa amazon ica Vanzolini, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 106: 62. Type- 

 locality: Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. 



Distribution: Amazon Valley from Manaus, Brazil, to Leticia, Colombia and southern 

 Venezuela. 



Comment; The name Amph i sbaena dub ia Rathke, I863, was suppressed in Opinion 664, Bull. Zool. 

 Nomen., 20, I963, I97. 



Amph isbaena ful i q i nosa bassler i Vanzolini 



1951 Amph isbaena ful iq inosa bassler i Vanzolini, Bull. Mus. Comp, Zool., 106: 61. Type- 

 locality: Roaboya, Loreto, Peru. 

 1963 A.j^ mph i sbaenaj f .|_ ul i q inosaj bassler i — Rhodes, Herpetolog ica, I9: 175- 



Distribution: Amazonian basin of Peru, Ecuador and northern Bolivia; Chaco of Argentina. 



Amph isbaena ful iq i nosa var ia Laurenti 



176s Amph i sbaena var ia Laurenti, Synopsin Reptilium: 66. Type-locality: America; restricted 

 through neotype designation to Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone, Panama, by Vanzolini, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 106, 1951, 61. 



1951 Amphisbaena fuliqinosa varia — Vanzolini, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 106: 61. 



Distribution: Panama to near V i llavicenc io, Colombia, and to near Trinidad, Venezuela; 

 Pacific slope of Ecuador and Colombia. 



Amph i sbaena ful i q i nosa w iedi Vanzolini 



1951 Amphisbaena fuliginosa wiedi Vanzolini, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 106: 62. Type-locality: 

 Santa Maria, Bahia, Brazil. 



Distribution: Known from type locality and lower Rio Amazonas, Brazil. 



