Bronia Gray, 1865: 448

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Bronia Gray, 1865: 448 . Type species: Bronia brasiliana by monotypy.

See discussion in Vanzolini (1951b: 114).

Bronia bedai Vanzolini

Bronia bedai Vanzolini, 1991d: 380 . TYPE LOCAL

ITY: Brazil: Mato Grosso do Sul, Anastacio. Ho

lotype: MZUSP 72988. Paratypes: MZUSP

73070, 73314, 73069.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Vanzolini (1991d: 380–387).

RANGE: Brazil; Mato Grosso do Sul.

Bronia brasiliana Gray

Bronia brasiliana Gray, 1865: 448 . TYPE LOCALI

TY: ‘‘Tropical America; Santarem, on the Am

azons’’, Brazil. Holotype: BMNH 1946.8 .31.77. Amphisbaena brasiliana Goeldi, 1902 .

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Gans (1971d). See also Vanzolini (1991d, variation).

RANGE: Lower Amazon, Santarem to Belem (specimen in the Departamento de Zoologia of São Paulo).

Bronia kraoh Vanzolini

Bronia kraoh Vanzolini, 1971: 193 . TYPE LOCAL

ITY: Brazil; Pedro Afonso , Godiás. Holotype:

MZUSP 2520.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Vanzolini (1971: 193,194). See also Vanzolini (1986, checklist; 1991d, variation).

RANGE: Known only from the type locality.

Genus Cadea Gray

Cadea Gray, 1844: 71 . Type species: Amphisbaena punctata Bell (= C. blanoides ), by monotypy.

See discussion in Gans and Alexander

(1962: 135).

Cadea blanoides Stejneger Amphisbaena punctata Bell, 1827: 236 . TYPE LO CALITY: ‘‘In Ins. Cubb.’’ Holotype: BMNH 1946.8.2.20. Junior homonym of A. punctata Wied, 1825a (= Leposternon microcephalum Wagler, 1824 ).

Cadea blanoides Stejneger, 1916: 85 . New name for Amphisbaena punctata .

Amphisbaena blanoides Hedges et al., 1992 .

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Gans and Alexander (1962: 136). See also Baker (1987, parasites), Estrada and Ruibal (1999), Iordansky (1984, 1994, anatomy), Schwartz and Henderson (1991, biology), Schwartz and Thomas (1975, distribution), and Zug and Schwartz (1958, variation).

RANGE: Western Cuba and Isla de Piños.

Cadea palirostrata Dickerson

Cadea palirostrata Dickerson, 1916: 659 . TYPE

LOCALITY: ‘‘ San Pedro, Isle of Pines, Cuba’’.

Holotype: AMNH 2717 About AMNH . Paratypes: AMNH

2718; MCZ 12052 (formerly AMNH 2719).

References

Schwartz, A., and R. Thomas. 1975. A check-list of West Indian amphibians and reptiles. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Spec. Publ. 1975 (1): 1 - 216. [pp. 166 - 169, Amphisbaena bakeri, A. caeca, A. caudalis, A. cubana, A. fenestrata, A. gonavensis, A. innocens, A. manni, A. schmidti, A. xera, Cadea blanoides, C. palirostrata]

Schwartz, A., and R. W. Henderson. 1991. Amphibians and reptiles of the West Indies: descriptions, distributions and natural history. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. [pp. 555 - 564; Amphisbaena caeca, A. caudalis, A.

Stejneger, L. 1916. Notes on amphisbaenian nomenclature. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 29: 85. [all]