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AMPHISBAENA 



AMPHISBAENA SLATERI Boulenger 



1507 Amphisbaena Slateri Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) I?: 487. Type-locality: R'o San Gabar 

 Valley, Provincia Carabaya, Peru, 2OOO-3OOO ft. 



Distribution: Known only from type and from two Bolivian specimens that possibly represent a 

 distinct southern race, according to Cans, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 135» I967, 7*- 



AMPHISBAENA SLEVINI Schmidt 



1536 Amph i sbaena slev i n i Schmidt, Herpetolog ! ca, 1: 31> pl- 3> ^'9' 3» Type-locality: Manaus, 



Amazonas, Braz i 1. 

 1563 Amphisbaena slevi n i — Gans. Amer. Mus, Novitates, 2127: 14, figs. 10-14. 



Distribution: Known from vicinity of type locality only. 



AMPHISBAENA SPURRELLI Boulenger 



1915 Amph i sbaena spurrell i Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1915' ^59» fig- !• Type-locality: 



Andagoya, at junction of R'os Condoto and San Juan, Colombia. 

 1962 Amphisbaena spurrelli — Gans, Breviora, Mus. Comp. Zool., I7I: 2, figs. 1-8. 



Distribution: Venezuela and northern Colombia to Panama. 



AMPHISBAENA STE I NDACHNERI Strauch 



1881 Amph isbaena ste indachner i Strauch, Bull. Acad. Imp. Sc i . St. Petersbourg, 28: col. 81. Type- 

 locality: Calcara, Mato Grosso, Brazil. 



Distribution: Southwestern Brazil, and Chaco of Bolivia; possibly Argentina. 



Content: Two subspecies. 



Key to the subspec ies-'- Clave de subespecies 



1. Ventral segments to one body annulus I6; 1. Segmentos ventrales de cada anillo del 



25O-266 body annul! ste indachner i cuerpo I6; 250-266 anillos del cuerpo 



Ventral segments to one body annulus more ste Indachner i 



than 16; 239-245 body annuli borell I i Segmentos ventrales de cada anillo del 



cuerpo más de 16; 239-245 anillos del 



cuerpo borell i i 



Amph i sbaena ste indachner i ste i ndachner i Strauch 



1930 Amph isbaena ste Indachner i [ stei ndachner l ] — Mertens, Folla Zool. Hydroblol., Riga, 1: l64. 

 1964 Amphisbaena ste i ndachner I ste indachner i — Gans, Senckenberg lana, 45: 391» figs. 2-7- 



Distribution; Southwestern Brazil. 



Amph I sbaena ste I ndachner i borell i i Peracca 



I897 Amphisbaena Borelli i Peracca, Boll. Mus. Zool. Comp. Anat. Univ. Torino, 12 (274): 8, 



figs. Type-locality: Calza, Chaco of Bolivia. 

 1964 Amph Isbaena ste indachneri borell I I — Gans, Senckenberg lana, 45- 397> figs. 5"9' 



Distribution: Known only from types and one specimen with no data in Museo Argentino de 

 Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia". 



Taken from Gans, Senckenberg lana, 45, 19^4, 391* 



