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AMPHISBAENA 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Relatively short head; 24-35 segments per 1. Cabeza relativamente corta; 24-35 segmentos 



midbody annulus; with Intercalated dorsal por anillo del medio cuerpo; con medio 



half annulus on neck; pigmentation drop- anillo dorsal intercalado en el cuello; 



ping out at ventral surface generally in pigmentación generalmente en diseño cuad- 



checkered pattern prunicolor riculado desaparece a ventral prunicolor 



Relatively elongate head; 27-3O segments Cabeza relativamente alargada; 27-3O seg- 



per midbody annulus; without intercalated mentos por anillo del medio cuerpo; sin 



half annulus in nuchal region; light medio anillo intercalado en región nucal; 



brown with ventral fading alboci nqulata pardo claro que no palidece a ventral 



alboc i nqulata 



Amph i sbaena prun i color prun icolor (Cope) 



1966 Amphisbaena prunicolor prunicoloi Gans, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 134: 246, pi. 42, 



figs. 1-3; figs. 38-39. 



Distribution: Misiones, Argentina, and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; possibly north into 

 Espirito Santo, Brazil. 



Amph i sbaena prun icolor alboc i nqulata Boettger 



188S Amphisbaena alboc i nqulata Boettger, Zeits. fur Naturwiss., 58: 219. Type-locality: 



Paraguay. 



1966 Amphisbaena prunicolor alboc i nqulata — Gans, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 134: 248, pi. 



43, figs. 1-3; pi. 44, figs. 1-3; figs. 40-41. 



Distribution: Paraguay, perhaps north into Mato Grosso and Goias, Brazil. 



AMPH ISBAENA RIDLEY I Boulenger 



ISqO Amphisbaena Ridleyi Boulenger, Jour. Linnean Soc. London, 20: 481. Type-locality: Porto Bello, 

 West Indies, and Fernando do Noronha, Brazil; restricted to Fernando do Noronha, Brazil by 

 Gans, Copeia, I963, IO3. 



196^ Amphisbaena ri dley i — Gans. Copeia, I963: 102, figs. 1-6. 



Distribution: llha de Fernando do Noronha, Brazil. 



AMPHISBAENA ROBERTI Gans 



1964 Amphisbaena robert i Gans. Senckenberg iana, 45: 402, figs. II-I7. Type-locality: Ypiranga, Sao 

 Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 



Distribution: Coastal SSo Paulo inland to southwestern Minas Gerais and southern Goias, Brazil. 



AMPHISBAENA ROZEI Lancini 



1963 Amphisbaena rozei Lancini, Publ. Ocas. Mus. Cien. Nat. Caracas, Zool., 6 (3): 1, figs. 1-4.^ Type- 



locality: Cabeceras del caño Majagua, Río Chajurá, tributary of R'o Erebato, Estado Bol'var, 

 Venezuela. 



Distribution: Known only from type locality. 



AMPHISBAENA SILVESTRI I Boulenger 



1902 Amphisbaena Silvestrii Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) J: 287. Type-locality: Cuyaba, Mato 



Grosso, Braz i 1 . 



1962 Amphisbaena s i Ivestr i i — Gans. Copeia, I962: I67, figs. 3, 5, ]. 



1964 Amphisbaena silvestrii — Gans, Copeia, 1964: 55''' 



Distribution: Rio Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Brazil west to Bolivia. 



