Synophis bicolor Peracca 1896

2. Synophis bicolor Peracca, 1896 Range. Chocoan lowlands of northwestern Ecuador, and presumably southwestern Colombia, ~ 200��� 300m. Description. Adult size ~ 360���410mm SVL and ~ 230���250mm TL in males, smooth nuchal scales; no nuchal collar; intranasals in contact; 2 postoculars; 9���11 infralabials; 8 supralabials; 174���183 ventrals; 129���143 subcaudals; and 19-19-17 dorsal scale-rows with single, weak keel. Synophis calamitus BMNH 1940.2.30.31 R��o Solaya, Ecuađor - 0.010213 -78.819510 1008 Synophis calamitus CAS 23612 Chimborazo, Naranjapata, Ecuađor -2.266667 -79.083333 763 Synophis calamitus KU 164208 9 km SE Tanđayapa, Pichincha Province, Ecuađor - 0.047404 -78.632804 2169 Synophis calamitus KU 197107 4 km SE Tanđayapa, Pichincha Province, Ecuađor - 0.012514 -78.650697 1889 Synophis calamitus MCZ R-164530 Ecuađor, Pichincha, Tanđapi -0.419803 -78.801132 1714 Synophis calamitus MZUTI 3694 Tambo Tanđa, Ecuađor - 0.020108 -78.651012 2048 Synophis calamitus QCAZ 10453 Cotopaxi: Naranjito, Bosque Integral Otonga -0.417820 -78.988030 1655 Synophis calamitus QCAZ 10453 Naranjito, Bosque Integral Otonga (BIO) -0.415967 -79.004800 2110 Synophis calamitus QCAZ 1136 Chiriboga -0.224530 -78.767750 1955 ������continued on the next page Species Collection Number Locality Latitude Longitude Elevation ������continued on the next page Notes. Populations representing S. bogerti, S. calamitus, S. niceforomariae, and S. zamora have previously been referred to as S. " bicolor " (e.g., Bogert 1964; Pyron et al. 2015; Torres-Carvajal et al. 2015).
Published as part of Pyron, R. Alexander, Arteaga, Alejandro, Echevarr��a, Lourdes Y. & Torres-Carvajal, Omar, 2016, A revision and key for the tribe Diaphorolepidini (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) and checklist for the genus Synophis, pp. 293-320 in Zootaxa 4171 (2) on pages 302-303, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/158885
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