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repulía: SAURIA: ANGUIDAE ^ ^ DIPLOGLOSSUS 



DIPLOGLOSSUS Wiegmann 



I834 Di ploglossus Wiegmann, Herpetologia Mexicana: 36- T ype-spec Íes: T i 1 i qua fase iatus Gray. 

 1845 Camil ia Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus.: 118. Type-species: T i 1 iqua jama icens is Gray. 



Distribution: Costa Rica and Panama; Pacific slopes of Colombia and Ecuador; northeastern Brazil; 

 Amazon ian Sol i v ia. 



Content: Six species. 



Key to the species Clave de especies 



1. Frontal in contact anteriorly with one scale — 2 1. Frontal contacta anteriormente con un sólo 

 Frontal in contact anteriorly with two or escudo 2 



more scales 4 Frontal contacto anteriormente con dos o mas 



escudos 4 



2. Dorsal scales smooth 3 



Dorsal scales keeled monotrop i s 2. Escamas dorsales lisas 3 



Escamas dorsales quilladas monotrop i s 



3. Fewer than 5O scales around middle of body; 3- Menos de 5O escamas al medio del cuerpo; 



dorsum with wide transverse bands fase iatus disefio dorsal formado por fajas transversales 



More than 5O scales around middle of body; anchas fase iatus 



dorsum with many light spots m i llepunetatus Más de 5" escamas al medio del cuerpo; disefio 



dorsal mult imaculado de elaro-- m i llepunetatus 



4. Two subequal loreals; prefrontal separated from 4. Dos loreales subiguales; prefrontal separado 



loreals; 37-42 scales around middle of body del loreales; 37"*2 escamas al medio del 



b i loba tus cuerpo b i loba tus 



One loreal larger than other; prefrontal in Dos loreales desiguales; prefrontal contacta 

 contact with first loreal; 33"37 scales around con primer loreal; 33"37 escamas al medio 



middle of body lessonae del cuerpo lessonae 



DIPLOGLOSSUS BILOBATUS (O 'Shaughnessy) 



1847 C elestus bilobatus 'Shaughnessy, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) 14: 257. Type-locality: Costa Rica. 



188S Diploqlossus bilobatua — Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., 2: 286. 



iqSS Diploqlossus bilobatu? — Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sc i . Bull., 38: 200, fig. 53. 



Distribution: Caribbean and Pacific slopes of Costa Rica. 



DIPLOGLOSSUS FASCIATUS (Gray) 



I83I T i 1 iqua Fase iatus Gray, Synopsis Species Class Reptilia, in Griffith, Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, 



9: 71- Type-locality: none given. 

 I834 [_ D iploqlossus j fase iatus — Wiegmann, Herpetologia Mexicana: J6. 



I839 Diploqlossus Houttuyn i i Cocteau, in Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen., 5' 597- Type-locality: Brazil. 

 1909 Diploqlossus resplendens Barbour, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 4: 'jO, pi. 4, 2 figs. 



Type-locality: Junction of R'o Kaka and Rio Ben i , eastern Bolivia. 



Distribution: Discontinuous; southeastern coastal Brazil; also Territorio do Acre, Brazil and 

 northeastern Bolivia. 



Comment: The synonymy of resplendens Barbour with fase iatus Gray is made on the authority of 

 Paulo Vanzolini, who has good material of the species available, and who has also examined the 

 holotype of resplendens . 



DIPLOGLOSSUS LESSONAE Peracca 



I89O D i ploglossus Lessonae Peracca, Bol. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Torino, 5 (77)' !• Type-locality: 



Brazil. 

 1924 Diploqlossus tenu ifasc iatus Parker. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (9) 13: 585, fig. Type-locality: 



Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. 

 1958 Diploqlossus lessonae — Vanzolini. Pap. Avul. Dept. Zool. Sao Paulo, I3: I79. 



Distribution: Rio Grande do Norte to Pernambueo in northeastern Brazil. 



