Amphisbaena bassleri Vanzolini

GANS, CARL, 2005, Checklist And Bibliography Of The Amphisbaenia Of The World, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (289), pp. 1-130 : 11-13

Amphisbaena bassleri Vanzolini

Amphisbaena fuliginosa bassleri Vanzolini, 1951a: 61 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Roaboya, Loreto, Peru’ ’. Holotype: AMNH 56606 . Paratypes: AMNH 56224 (not 45624), 56588–56590, 56592, 56596–56600 (not 56660), 56602, Loreto Peru); AMNH 56594 , 56609 ( Contamana , Loreto, Peru) ; AMNH 56310 (Pampa Hermosa, Loreto Peru) ; AMNH 56611 ( Cuxiabatay River , Loreto, Peru) ; AMNH 56607 , 56613 ( Roaboya , Loreto, Peru) ; AMNH 56608 (Requena, Loreto, Peru) ; AMNH 56601 (Reforma, Loreto, Peru) ; BMNH 1907.5.2.1–1907.5.2.3 ( Rio San Gaban , Loreto, Peru) ; CNHM 45471 , 45472 ( Iquitos , Loreto, Peru) ; MCZ 45784 (Pucallpa, Loreto, Peru) .

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Vanzolini (1951a: 61) and Rhodes (1963: 175). See also Miyata (1982, distribution).

RANGE: Northern Bolivia, southern Peru, and the Ucayali River valley up to the upper Amazon in Loreto. The Argentine record from the Chaco Austral (Serie´, 1915) apparently belongs here. The specimen is in the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales in Buenos Aires.

Amphisbaena bolivica Mertens

Amphisbaena camura bolivica Mertens, 1929: 60 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘Villa Montes, Rio Pilcomayo, Süd Bolivien’’. Holotype: SMF 22099. Paratype: SMF 28105, anterior half of specimen only.

Amphisbaena bolivica Montero, 1996: 78 .

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Gans (1965c), Montero (1996b). See also Avila et al. (2000, conservation status), Cabrera (1993, 1998, distribution), Dirksen and De la Riva (1999, distribution), Fugler (1989, distribution), Gallardo et al. (1985, distribution), Laurent and Teran (1981, distribution), Lions et al. (1997, distribution), Masi Pallarés et al. (1976, parasites), Montero (1996b, variation; 1996b, distribution), Montero and Fabrezi (2000, anatomy), Montero and Terol (1999, distribution), and Rosenberg (1967, hemipenes).

RANGE: Central to north Argentina, east of Bolivia, southwest of Paraguay.

Amphisbaena caeca Cuvier Amphisbaena caeca Cuvier, 1829: 73 . TYPE LO­

CALITY: ‘‘Martinique’’ = Puerto Rico (cf. Ste­

jneger, 1904: 675). Lectotype: MHNP A550

(Gans and Alexander, 1962: 123). Lectopara­

types: MNHP 3114,3115.

Sarea caecas Gray, 1844: 71 . (= A. ridleyi Bou­

lenger; cf. Gans and Alexander 1962: 82).

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Gans and Alexander (1962: 123) and R. Thomas (1966: 5). See also Atiles (1887, natural history), Chaine (1900, anatomy), Cloudsley­Thompson (1977, biology; 1977, ecology), Crother (1999, biogeography), Grant (1932a, variation), Heatwole et al. (1965, distribution), Magwene (1997, anatomy), Rhoten (1970, pancreas), Rosenberg (1967, hemipenes), and Schwartz and Thomas (1975, checklist).

RANGE: Puerto Rico, with the possible exception of the western extremity of the island; also on Caja de Muertos.

Amphisbaena camura Cope

Amphisbaena camura Cope, 1862: 350 . TYPE LO­ CALITY: ‘‘Paraguay’’. Syntypes: USNM 5860 (two specimens).

Amphisbaena boliviana Werner, 1910b: 35 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘Prov. Beni, Bolivia, Quellgebiet des Amazonas’ ’. Syntypes: Formerly Zoologisches Museum, Hamburg; destroyed.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Gans (1965a: 22). See also Aquino et al. (1996, distribution), Bertoni (1914, distribution), Cendrero (1972, distribution), Dirksen and De la Riva (1999, distribution), Masi Pallarés et al. (1973, parasites), Montero (1996b, variation, distribution), and Montero and Terol (1999, distribution).

RANGE: Paraguay, Amazonian Bolivia, Brazil (Mato Grosso).

Amphisbaena carlgansi Thomas and

Hedges Amphisbaena carlgansi Thomas and Hedges,

1998: 93. TYPE LOCALITY: Boca del Toro, Gran­

ma Province , Cuba. Holotype: MNHNCU

4421. Paratypes: MNHNCU 4422, USNM

512213, 512214, UMMZ 90720.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Thomas and Hedges (1998).

RANGE: Known only from two localities on the Meseta de Cabo Cruz, Granma Province, Cuba.

Amphisbaena carvalhoi Gans Amphisbaena carvalhoi Gans, 1965b: 625 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘Poção, Municipio de Pesqueira, Pernambuco, Brazil... on the Serra de Acahy at 1035m ... in broken up granite gravels.’’ (08 ° 11 ̍ S, 36 ° 43 ̍ W). Holotype: MNRJ R2095. Paratypes: MNRJ R1759, R2093, 2094, R2096–2098, SU 17289,17290.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Gans (1965b: 625), and Vanzolini (1974).

RANGE: Known from types only.

Amphisbaena caudalis Cochran

Amphisbaena caudalis Cochran, 1928b: 58 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘Grande Cayemite Island, Haiti.’’ Holotype: MCZ 25550. Paratype: MCZ 25551.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Gans and Alexander (1962: 110). See also Henderson and Schwartz (1984, identification), Henderson et al. (1984, identification), Powell et al. (1999), and Schwartz (1980).

RANGE: Grande Cayemite Island, Haiti. Known from the types only.

Amphisbaena cegei Montero, Sáfadez, Álvarez 1997

Amphisbaena cegei Montero et al. 1997: 218 .

TYPE LOCALITY: Pampa Grande (64 ° 06 ̍ S,

18 ̍ W), Province of Florida, Department of San­

ta Cruz , Bolivia. Holotype: MNKM 580 .

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Montero et al.

(1997). See also Dirksen and De la Riva.

(1999) and Montero (2001, variation).

RANGE: Known only from the type locality

and vicinities.

Amphisbaena crisae Vanzolini

Amphisbaena crisae Vanzolini, 1997: 68 . TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil: Mato Grosso: Cafeara (11 ° 50 ̍ S, 50 ° 20 ̍ W). Holotype: MZUSP 6418. Paratype: MZUSP 6415–6417, 6419–6423, same data as the holotype.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Vanzolini (1997). RANGE: Known only from the type locality.

Amphisbaena cubana Gundlach and Peters Amphisbaena cubana Gundlach and Peters in W.C.H. Peters, 1878b: 780. TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘Cuba’’. Syntypes: ZMB 6904, 9384. The description incorrectly lists ZMB 9384 as one of the types. Schwartz and Henderson (1991) list­ ed ZMB 9383 as the holotype. Syntypes: ZMB 6904, 9383.

Amphisbaena cubana cubana Gundlach and Peters : Cendrero 1972, Schwartz and Thomas, 1975, and Baker, 1987.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Gans and Alexander (1962: 97). See also Baker (1987, parasites), Cendrero (1972), Crother (1999), Estrada and Ruibal (1999), Iordansky (1984, 1990, 1994, anatomy), Schwartz and Henderson (1988, 1991), Schwartz and Thomas (1975), Thomas and Hedges (1998, variation), and Zangerl (1944, skull; 1945, anatomy).

RANGE: Eastern Cuba, west to Cienfuegos; Isla de Pinos.