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Distribution: Corrientes, Chaco, Entre Ri'os, Formosa and Misiones. Also in Brazil, from Sao Paulo to Rio 

 Grande do Sul, Paraguay and Uruguay (Michaud & Dixon, 1987; Meneghel & Achaval, 1983; Achaval & 

 Olmos, 1997) 



Liophis frenatus (Werner, 1909) 



Rhadinaea frenata Werner, 1909. Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg 26: 224. 



Rhadinaea brazili Amaral, 1923. Proc. New England Zool. Club 7: 87. 



Liophis brazili Amaral, 1926. Arch. Mus. Nac. Brazil 26: 9. 



Liophis frenatus Amaral, 1929. Mem. Inst. Butantan 4: 45. 

 Type locality: Paraguay. 



Distribution: Northeastern Corrientes and Misiones (Giraudo et al. 1992; Alvarez et al. 1995). Also in 

 Paraguay and Brazil, in Sao Paulo, Mato Grosso do Sul and Parana (Dixon, 1983, 1989; Giraudo et al. 1992). 



Liophis guentheri Peracca 1897 

 Liophis guentheri Peracca, 1897. Boll Mus. Torino 12 (274): 12 

 Leimadophis typhlus Peters & Orejas Miranda, 1970. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 297 1:150 

 Liophis guentheri Dixon, 1987. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 56 (8): 180. 



Type locality: Caiza (Bolivian Chaco), Bolivia. 



Distribution:Chaco, Formosa, Salta and Santiago del Estero (Williams & Scrocchi, 1994). Chaquena 

 province (mainly Chaquefio Occidental district). 



Comments: The map of Cei (1993) shows a locality in northwestern Corrientes probably based on an 

 individual housed in the UNNEC collection, but this specimen is actually a Liophis poecilogyrus. It has not 

 been recorded in intensive surveys of that area made by Alvarez et al. (1996) and Giraudo (1997). 



Liophis jaegeri coralliventris (Boulenger 1894) 



Aporophis coralliventris Boulenger, 1894. Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. 2: 346. 



Liophis jaegeri Serie, 1936. Inst. Mus. Univ. La Plata Obra Cincuentenario: 43. 



Liophis jaegeri coralliventris Dixon, 1987. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 56 (8): 186. 

 Type locality: Island north of Concepcion, near San Salvador, north Paraguay. 

 Distribution: Buenos Aires, Corrientes, Chaco, Entre Ri'os, Formosa, 



Misiones and Santa Fe (Williams & Scrocchi, 1994; Giraudo & Quaini, 1997). Also basin of Paraguay river 

 (Dixon, 1987, 1989). Paranaense and Chaquefia (Oriental district) provinces, through the Parana and 

 Uruguay rivers, enters in Espinal and Pampeana provinces. 



Liophis nieridionalis (Schenkel 1901) 



Aporophis lineatus meridionalis Schenkel, 1901. Verb. Naturf. Ges. Basel 13: 160. 



Aporophis lineatus lativittatus Muller, 1928. Zool. Anz. 77: 74. 



Lygophis lineatus Amaral, 1929. Mem. Inst. Butantan 4: 19. 



Lygophis lineatus meridionalis Hoge, 1953. Mem. Inst. Butantan 24 (2): 252. 



Liophis lineatus meridionalis Dixon, 1980. Milwaukee Public Mus., Contr. Biol. & Geol. 31: 11. 



Liophis meridionalis Michaud & Dixon, 1987. Milwaukee Public. Mus., Contr. Biol. & Geol. 71:8. 

 Type locality: Sociedad Mount, Balmacue, Paraguay. 



Distribution: Corrientes, Chaco, Formosa and southwestern Misiones (Giraudo, 1997). Also Bolivia, center 

 and southeastern Brazil and Paraguay (Michaud & Dixon, 1987). Chaquefia province (Oriental district) and 

 bordering areas of Paranaense province (Campos district). 

 Comments: See comments under Liophis dilepis. 



Liophis miliaris orinus (Griffm, 1916) 

 Rhadinea orina Griffm, 1916. Mem. Carnegie Mus. 7: 195. 



Rhadinaea merremii natricoides Werner, 1926. SitzunsbergAk. Wiss. Wien (Abt. 1) 135 : 246. 



Liophis miliaris orinus Dixon, 1983. Copeia 1983 (3): 800. 

 Type locality: "Sierras" of Bolivia, restricted to Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil by Gans (1964). 

 Distribution: Misiones (Giraudo, 1997). Also southeastern Brazil from Minas Gerais, through Sao Paulo, 

 Parana and Santa Catarina to northern Rio Grande do Sul (Dixon, 1983 a, 1989). Paranaense Province. 



