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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Volume 11, No. 1, pp. 1-9, 4 figs. July 14, 1958
Systematic Status of the Colubrid Snake, Leptodeira discolor G?nther
WILLIAM E. DUELLMAN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE 1958
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch, Robert W. Wilson
Volume 11, No. 1, pp 1-9, 4 figs. Published July 14, 1958
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
PRINTED IN THE STATE PRINTING PLANT TOPEKA, KANSAS 1958
Systematic Status of the Colubrid Snake, Leptodeira discolor G?nther
WILLIAM E. DUELLMAN
Examination of all available xenodontine genera indicates that this snake belongs to a heretofore unnamed genus. In recognition of the mental torment customarily suffered by workers attempting to ascertain the relationships of the many genera of colubrid snakes, I propose the generic name
The generic name comes from the Greek Tantalos, a mythological character symbolic of eternal torment, and from the Greek ophis for snake.
The synonymy for the species is indicated in the account of the genus. The description below of the species is based on an adult male from 6 miles southeast of Tamazul?pam, Oaxaca, M?xico .
A thin and otherwise small parotid gland or "venom sac" extends posteriorly from beneath the eye to about the angle of the jaw; a minute duct connects with the anteromedian surface and extends to the fleshy part of the mouth at the posterior end of the maxillary .
LITERATURE CITED
AMARAL, A. DO
BOULENGER, G. A.
COPE, E. D.
DUELLMAN, W. E.
DUM?RIL, A. M., and BOCOURT, F.
DUNN, E. R.
GARMAN, S.
G?NTHER, A. C. L. G.
TAYLOR, E. H.
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