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LEPQSTERNON M ICROCEPHALUM Waqler. continued 



1855 Lepidosternum Borell i 



Type-locality: Res 



1855 Lep idosternum Cameran 



1 Peracca, Boll. Mus. Zool. Comp. Anat. Univ. Torino, 10 (155): 10, fig. 

 istencia. Chaco of Argentina. 



i_ Peracca, Boll. Mus. Zool. Comp. Anat. Univ. Torino, 10 (155): 12, fig. 



Type-locality! Luque, Paraguay. 

 1504 Lepi dosternon laticeps Peracca, Boll. Mus. Zool. Comp. Anat. Univ. Torino, I5 (460): 3, 3 figs. 



Type-locality: Urucum, Mato Grosso, Brazil. 

 1504 Lepidosternon Carcani Peracca, Boll. Mus. Zool. Comp. Anat. Univ. Torino, I5 (460): 5, fig. 



Type-locality: Urucum, Mato Grosso, Brazil. 

 1510 Lepidosternon pfefferi Werner, Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, 27 (2): 35. Type-locality: 



Paraguay. 

 I56O Leposternon mi crocephalum — Hellm ich. Abh. Bayerischen Akad. Wiss., Math. Nat. Kl., new series, 



101: 104. 



Distribution: Amazonian Brazil and Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, northern Argentina. 



LEPOSTERNON OCTOSTEGUM (Oumeril) 



I85I L.[ epidosternon ] octostequm Dumlril, Cat. Mlth. Coll. Rept. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris: I50. Type- 

 locality: Brazil. 

 1567 Leposternon octostequm — Gans, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 135= 82. 



Distribution: Known only from type and a specimen from Bahia, Brazil, recorded by Strauch, 1881. 



LEPOSTERNON POLYSTEGUM (Oumeril) 



I85I L.T epidosternon ] Polystequm Dumlril, Cat. Méth. Coll. Rept. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris: I45. Type- 

 locality: Bahia, Brazil. 



186S Lepidosternon qrayii Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, I865: 452. Type-locality: "South America?" 



1916 Leposternon polystequm — Schmidt, Herpetolog i ca, 1: 31' 



I5S6 Leposternon polysteqo i des Schmidt, Herpetolog ica, 1: 3I, pi. 3, fig. 4. Type-locality: Lago 

 Papary, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. 



Distribution: Para, Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, and Bahia, Brazil. 



LEPOSTERNON SCUTIGERUM (Hemprich) 



1825 Amphisbaena scutiqera Hemprich. Verh. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1: I25. Type-locality: 



Brazil. 

 I83I L.[ ep i dosternon ] Hemprich i i Wiegmann and Ruthe (substitute name for Amph isbaena scut iqera 



Hemprich), Handbuch der Zoologie: 186. 

 1812 Cephalopeltis cuvieri Müller. Zeits. fur Physiol., 4 (2), art. I3: 256. Type-locality: Brazil. 

 I835 Lepidosternon scut iqerum Dumlril and Bibron, Erp. Gin., 5= 5^3' 

 1567 Leposternon scu t i qerum — Gans , Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 135= 83. 

 Distribution: Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 



LEPOSTERNON WUCHERERI (Peters) 



1879 Lepidosternon Wuchereri Peters. Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, I875: 276, pi., figs. 2-2c. Type- 

 locality: Bahia, Brazil. 



1855 Lepidosternum sinuosum Peracca, Boll. Mus. Zool. Comp. Anat. Univ. Torino, 10 (200): 1, fig. 

 Type-locality: Brazil. 



I5I8 Leposternon wucherer i — Amaral . Mem. Inst. Butantan, 11 (l337): 2O3. 



Distribution: Bahia, Espirito Santo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 



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