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Pseudablabes Boulenger 1896 



Pseudablabes Boulenger, 1896. Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus. 3: 126. 

 Type species: Eiremis agassizii Jan, 1863, by monotypy. 



Pseudablabes agassizzi (Jan, 1863) 

 Eiremis Agassizii Jan, IS63. Arch. Zool. Anat. Fisiol. 2: 260. 



Philodryas paucisqitamis Peters, 1863. Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1863: 286. L[iopeltis] 



brevicauda Jan, 1863. Elenco Sist. degli Ofidi: 82. 

 Pseudablabes agassizii Boulenger, 1896. Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. 3: 126. 

 Type locality: Uruguay 



Distribution: Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Chaco, Entre Ri'os, La Pampa, Misiones, San Luis, Santa Fe and 

 Santiago del Estero (Gallardo 1982; Viiias, 1985; Vinas et. al, 1989; Vega & Bellagamba, 1990; Giraudo, 

 1997, 1999; Tiranti & Avila, 1997; Giraudo & Quaini, 1997). Also in southern and southwestern Brazil to 

 Minas Gerais and Uruguay (Giraudo, 1997; Achaval & Olmos, 1997; Kiefer, 1998) in the east. Chaquefia 

 province, and transitional areas with Paranaense (Campos district), Espinal and Pampeana provinces. 



Pseudoboa Schneider, 1801 



Pseudoboa Schneider, 1801. Hist. Amphib. 2: 281. 



Olisthenes Cope, 1859. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phi lad. 1859: 296. 

 Type species: Pseudoboa coronata, Schneider, 1801. Hist. Amphib. 2: 286. 



Pseudoboa liaasi (Boettger, 1905) 



Oxyrhopus haasi Boettger, 1905. Zool. Anz. 29: 374. 



Pseudoboa haasi Amaral, 1926. Rev. Mus. Paulista 15: 105. 

 Type locality: Campos de Palmas, Parana, Brazil. 



Distribution: Northern and northeastern Misiones. Also southeastern Sao Paulo, Parana, Santa Catarina and 

 Rio grande do Sul in Brazil (Bailey, 1970a; Lema & Ely, 1979; Giraudo, 1993, 1997; Lema 1994; Morato et. 

 al, 1995; Giraudo, in press). Paranaense province (Selvas Mixtas district, in Pinares comunity). 

 Comments: See comments on Pseudoboa nigra in the introduction. 



Pseudoeryx F'ltz'inger, 1826 

 Pseudoeryx Fitzinger, 1826. Neue Classification der Reptilien: 55 



PseudoerixThon, 1838 (emendation of Pseudoeiyx Fitzinger), in Ersch & Gruber, Enc. 2 (12): 387 

 Pseuderyx Fitzinger, 1843 (emendation of Pseudoeryx Fitzinger), Systema Reptilium: 25 

 Dimades Gray, 1849. Cat. Sn. Brit. Mus.: 76. 

 Type species: Coluber plicatilis Linnaeus, 1758. Systema Naturae 10: 217. 



Pseudoeryx plicatilis plicatilis (Linnaeus 1758) 



Coluber plicatilis Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat. Ed. 10:217. 



Pseudoeryx plicatilis Fitzinger, 1826. Neue Classif. der Rept.: 55. 



Pseudoeiyx Daudinii Fitzinger, 1826. Neue Classif. der Rept.: 55. 



Dimades plicatilis Boulenger, 1894. Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. 2:186. 



Pseuderyx plicatilis var. anomalolepis Bocourt, 1985. Miss. Sci. Mex., Rept.: 804. 



Hydrops lehmamii Dunn, 1944. Caldasia 3 (1 1): 71. 



Pseudoeryx plicatilis plicatilis Hoge, 1964. Mem. Inst. Butantan 30: 80. 

 Type locality: "Ternataeis". 



Distribution: Corrientes, Chaco, Formosa and Misiones (Giraudo, 1997; Giraudo, in press). Wide 

 distribution in South America from Colombia, Venezuela and Guyanas to northern Argentina (Peters & 

 Orejas Miranda, 1970). Chaquefia and Paranaense provinces (always related to great rivers and flood plains). 

 Comments: The references in Chaco, Corrientes and Misiones are old (Berg, 1898; Koslowky, 1898; Serie, 

 1921, 1936). The only Argentinian specimen found in museums is from Formosa, but the we collected 

 specimens in Paraguay, on the banks of the Paraguay River, very close to the border of Formosa and Chaco 

 and 50 km airline distance from Corrientes (Giraudo, in press). 



