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POLYCHRUS 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Canthus rostralis somewhat rounded; scales 1. Canto rostral algo redondeado; escamas de 



on pectoral region smooth or very weakly la region pectoral lisas o ligeramente 



keeled-- spurrelli i qu i 11a das spurrell i i 



Canthus rostralis distinctly angular; Canto rostral distintamente angular; 



scales on pectoral region strongly keeled, escamas de la region pectoral fuertemente 



may be bi- or tricarinate, usually uni- guilladas, pueden ser bi- o tr ¡carenadas, 



car i na te qutturosus generalmente un i carena das qutturosus 



Polychrus qutturosus qutturosus Berthold 



I87O Polychrus ( Chaunolaemus ) mult Icar i natus Peters, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1865: 786. 



Type-locality: Costa Rica. 

 1535 Polychrus qutturosus qutturosus — Parker, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1935= S?^- 



Distribution: Higher western Andean slopes of Ecuador and Colombia north to Costa Rica and 

 Nicaragua. 



Polychrus qutturosus spurrell i i Boulenger 



1514 Polychrus spurrelli Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1914: 814, pi. 1, fig. 2. Type- 

 locality: Peña Lisa, Condoto, Colombia. 

 1935 Polychrus qutturosus spurrelli i — Parker, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1935= 516. 



Distribution: Lowland rain forests of northwestern Ecuador and Colombia. 



POLYCHRUS LIOGASTER Boulenger 



I9O8 Polychrus lioqaster Boulenger. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (b) 1: II3. Type-locality: Provincia Sara, 

 Bolivia, 75'' '"> 3"d Chanchamayo, eastern Peru. 



Distribution: Lowlands of Amazonian Bolivia and Peru; Acre, Brazil. 



POLYCHRUS MARMORATUS (Linnaeus) 



1758 Lacerta marmorata Linnaeus. Systema Naturae, Ed. 10: 208. Type-locality: "Hispania". 



1820 Polychrus marmoratus — Merrem, Tentamen Systematis Amphibiorum: 48. 



1821 I Poiychru^s J str i q i ventr is Waqler. Descr i pt iones et Icones Amphibiorum: pi. 12, and third page of 



unnumbered text. Type-locality: None given. 



1822 Polych .[rus] virescens Schinz, in Cuvier's Das Thierreich, 2: 65- Type-locality: None given. 

 183S Polychrus Neovidanus Waqler. Isis von Oken, 26: 897- Type-locality; None given. 



Distribution: Amazonian basin of South America; Venezuela, 



