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BASILISCUS 



Bas il iscus basil iscus bas il iscus (Linnaeus) 



1768 Basiliscus americanus Laurenti, Synopsin Reptilium: 50. Type-locality: South America. 



1802 Bas il iscus mi tratus Daudin (substitute name for bas il iscus Linnaeus), Hist. Nat. Rept., 

 3: 310, pi. 42. 



18'^q Ophryoessa bilineata Gray, Zoology Beechey's Voyage, Reptiles: 94. Type-locality: 

 Fernando de Noronha; questioned by Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., 2, I885, 108. 



1852 Lophosaura Goodridgii Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (2) 10: 438. Type-locality: "Quibo". 



1876 Basiliscus guttulatus Cope, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., (2) 8 (I875): I56. Type- 

 locality: Camp at Buhio Soldado, Panama. 



1562 B[ as i 1 iscus ] basil iscus [ bas il iscus j — Maturana, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 128: 26. 



Distribution: Soutliern Central America to northwestern Colombia and Ecuador. 



Bas i 1 iscus bas i 1 i scus barbour i Ruthven 



1514 Bas i 1 iscus barbour i Ruthven, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 27: 5> P^' 1> f ¡gs- 1-2. Type- 

 locality: Ga i ra River at Minea, San Lorenzo, Santa Marta Mountains, Colombia, 2200 ft. 

 1562 Bas i 1 i scus bas i 1 i scus barbour i — Maturana, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 128: 26. 



Distribution: Western Venezuela and Santa Marta, Colombia. 



BASIL ISCUS GALERITUS Dumlril 



1851 Basiliscus Galeritus Dumeril, Cat. Méth. Coll. Rept. Mus. Paris: 6I. Type-locality: 



"N. -Grenade", which is Colombia. 

 18^2 Ptenosaura Seemanni Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (2) 10: 438. Type-locality: "Quibo", on west 

 coast of America. 



Distribution: Pacific slopes of Colombia and Ecuador to Panama and Costa Rica. 



BASILISCUS PLUMIFRONS Cope 



1876 Basiliscus plumifrons Cope, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., (2) 8 (I875): 125, pi. 25, figs. 1-la. 

 Type-locality: Sipurio, Costa Rica. 



Distribution: Panama, Costa Riga, and Nicaragua. 



BASILISCUS VITTATUS Wiegmann 



1828 Bas il i scus v i ttatus Wiegmann, Isis von Oken, 21: 373- Type-locality: Mexico, restricted by 

 Smith and Taylor, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., I55, I55O. 72, to Veracruz, Veracruz. 



1852 Cristasaura mitrella Grayt Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (2) 10: 439. Type-locality: Honduras. 



1860 Daconura bivittata Hallowell. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860: 482. Type-locality: Nicaragua 

 restricted to Greytown, Nicaragua, by Smith and Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33, 1950, 320. 



1862 Basil iscus ( Cristasaura ) nuchal is Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862: 181. Type-locality: 

 Near Greytown, Nicaragua. 



1893 Dactylocalotes elisa Werner, Zool. Anz., 16:' 36I. Type-locality: Sumatra. 



Distribution: Jalisco and Tamaulipas, Mexico through Central America on both coasts as far as 

 Colombia. Recorded from Ecuador by Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., 2, I885, 110. 



