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GYMNOPHTHALMUS 



GYMNOPHTHALMUS SPECIOSUS (Hallowell) 



IRfil Blepharictisis speciosa Hallowell. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I860: 484. Type-locality: 



N i caragua. 

 1939 GYmnophthalmus speciosus — Stuart, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Micli., 409: 4, pi. 1, figs. 3-4. 



Distribution: Central America and northern South America. 



Content: Three subspecies. 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Prefrontals in contact with loreal 2 1. Prefrontales contactan con la loreal--- -— 2 



Prefrontals separated from loreal b i rd i Prefrontales separados de la loreal — bird i 



2. Five supralabials to posterior margin of 2. Cinco supralab iales hasta el margen pos- 



eye spec i osus terior del ojo spec i osus 



Four supralabials to posterior margin of Cuatro supralab i ales hasta el margen pos- 

 eye s um i chrast i i terior del ojo sum ichrast i i 



Gymnophthalmus spec i osus spec i osus (Hallowell) 



I87I Tretioscincus laevicaudus Cope. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 11 (I870): 557. Type-locality: 

 Departamento Occidental, Nicaragua (three cotypes in Museum of Comparative Zoology are 

 labeled as coming from Poluon, Nicaragua). 



1952 Gymnophthalmus speciosus spec iosus Mertens, Abh. Senckenberg. Naturforsch. Ges., 487: 56, 

 pi. 13, fig. 77- 



Distribution: Honduras and Nicaragua to northern South America; Margarita Island. 



Gymnophthalmus spec iosus b i rd i Stuart 



1939 Gymnophthalmus birdi Stuart. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 4O9: 1, pi. 1, figs. 1-2. 



Type-locality: Desert flats of Salami Basin, San Gerónimo, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala. 

 1952 Gymnophthalmus speciosus b i rdi—— Mertens, Abh. Senckenberg. Naturforsch. Ges., 487: 56. 



Distribution: Dry basins and valleys of central Guatemala across southeastern highlands of 

 Guatemala and El Salvador. 



Gymnophthalmus spec iosus sum i chrast i i (Cope) 



I876 Epaphelus sumichrastii Cope. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., (2) 8 (I875): II5. Type- 

 locality: Estado Tehuantepec, Mexico. 

 1963 Gymnophthalmus speciosus sumichrasti- — Stuart, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 122: 80. 



Distribution: Pacific slope from Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico to western Guatemala. 



GYMNOPHTHALMUS UNDERWOOD I Grant 



1558 G ymnophthalmus underwood i Grant, Herpetolog ica, 14: 228. Type-locality: Barbados. 

 i str ibut i oiTi: Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago» 



