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NEUSTICURUS 



NEUSTICURUS ECPLEOPUS Cope 



1876 Neusticurus ecpleopus Cope, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sc ! . Phila., (2) 8 (I875): I6I. Type-local ! ty: 



Peru; according to Uzzell, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., I32, 1566, 29O, probably in drainage 

 of R'o Huallaga, between Rioja, Moyobamba, Balsaspuerto, and exit of Huallaga into Amazon Basi 



1530 Neust icurus ocellatus Sinitsin, Amer. Mus. K'ovitates, Í08: 1. Type-locality: Rurrenabaque, 

 Bol i via. 



iq^S Neusticurus tuberculatus Shreve, Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 2O9. Type-locality: 

 Sarayacu, Ecuador. 



1966 Neusticurus ecpleopus — Uzzell, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 132: 25O. 



Distribution: Eastern slopes of Andes from southern Colombia to central Bolivia; Territorio do 

 Acre and Estado do Amazonas, Brazil. 



NEUSTICURUS RACENIS I Roze 



19=18 Neusticurus racenisi Roze. Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 2: 252. Type-locality; Auyantepu', Estado 

 Bolivar, Venezuela. 



Distribution: Known only from type locality. 



NEUSTICURUS RUDIS Boulenger 



1500 Neust Icurus rudis Boulenger, Trans. Linnaean Soc. London, (2) 8: 53- Type-locality: Foot of 



Mount Roraima, Guyana, IO5O m. 

 1523 Neust icurus suri namens I s MUller, Zool. Anz., 5^: 255- Type-locality: Albina, near mouth of 



Maroni River, Surinam. 

 1527 Neusticurus dejongi Brongersma, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (9) 20: 5*3- Type-locality: Surinam. 

 1966 Neusticurus rudis — Uzzell, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 132: 286. 



Distribution: Guyana, Surinam, and extreme eastern Venezuela. 



NEUSTICURUS STRANGULATUS (Cope) 



1868 Euspondylus stranoulatus Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., 1868: 99. Type-local i ty:__ Ecuador; 



according to Uzzell (below) probably either between Papallacta and Napo, or along R'o Napo, 



before it joins Rfo Marañón, in Ecuador or Peru. 

 1966 Neusticurus stranoulatus — Uzzell . Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 132: 302. 



Distribution: Amazonian slopes of Andes, Ecuador and Peru. 

 Content; Two subspecies. 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Tubercles absent stranqula tus 1. Tubérculos ausentes stranoulatus 



Tubercles present trachodus Tubérculos presentes trachodus 



Neust icurus stranoulatus stranoulatus (Cope) 



1897 Euspondilus Festae Peracca, Boll. Mus. Zool. Comp. Anat. Univ. Torino, 12 (3OO): 10. 



Type-locality: Valley of Rio Zamora and Rio Santiago, Ecuador. 

 1966 Neusticurus stranoulatus stranoulatus — Uzzell, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 132: 3O2. 



Distribution: Amazonian slopes in Ecuador and northern Peru. 



Neust icurus stranoulatus trachodus Uzzell 



1966 Neusticurus stranoulatus trachodus Uzzell. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 32: 3O5. 

 Type-locality: Divisoria (=Cordillera Azul), Huánuco, Peru, I3OO-I6OO m. 



Distribution: Departamento de Huánuco, in Andes of Central Peru, between 75'' ^nd I6OO m. 



