Dipsas cenchoa (Linnaeus)

Vanzolini, Paulo E. & Myers, Charles W., 2015, The Herpetological Collection Of Maximilian, Prince Of Wied (1782 - 1867), With Special Reference To Brazilian Materials, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2015 (395), pp. 1-155 : 61-62

Dipsas cenchoa (Linnaeus)

1824 Isis : 669 (listed).

1825 Beitra¨ge: 396.

PRESENT STATUS: Imantodes cenchoa (Linnaeus, 1758) .

REMARKS: There are no specimens in the collection.

Elaps corallinus Wied, 1820 Plate 40 and figures 20–21 (lectotype and paralectotype)

1820 Reise 1: 72, 258 (Cobra coral oder Corae¨s).

1821? Nova Acta: 108–109 + color pl. 4 (description).

1821 Reise 2: 75 (reference to preceding description and to Merrem), 336, 339.

1824 Isis : 669 (diagnosis).

1824 Abbildungen: Lief. 6.

1825 Beitra¨ge: 405, pl. 2 ( figs. 11–12 ).

PRESENT STATUS: Micrurus corallinus ( Merrem, 1820) .

REMARKS: This name dates from the Nova Acta coral snake paper (usually dated 1820, but see discussion under Prince Maximilian’s Herpetological Publications), which is referenced in the footnote description in Reise 2 (1821).

3911.

Wied’s species is both a junior synonym and a junior homonym of Merrem’s; they are also based on the same specimens. It was just a case of two friends sharing materials and ideas and publishing without much concern for priority (in the happy days before the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature).

Elaps corallinus is listed as species no. 168 in Wied’s manuscript catalog ; there are two specimens. Roze (1966) discussed the case and designated AMNH R-3911 as lectotype of both Merrem’s and Wied’s species, and AMNH R-3935 as paralectotype of both species. The first is in poor condition, the second in relatively good condition ( figs. 20–21 ) .

There is no way of assigning a type locality: Wied mentions Tiririca (22 ° 539S, 42 ° 229W) and Belmonte (15 ° 519S, 38 ° 549W). Mu¨ ller, 1927: 301 restricted the type locality to Rio de Janeiro.

Figures

Fig. 20. Shared lectotype of Elaps corallinus Wied and Micrurus corallinus (Merrem, 1820), AMNH R-

Fig. 21. Shared paralectotype of Elaps corallinus Wied and Micrurus corallinus Merrem, 1820, AMNH R-3935.

Fig. 11. Holotype of Coluber liocercus Wied (AMNH R-3531).

Fig. 12. Synypes of Coluber variabilis Wied in dorsal and ventral view (5 Spilotes pullatus (Linnaeus). A. Holotype of Coluber variabilis Wied (AMNH R-3483). B. Second syntype of Coluber variabilis (AMNH R-3482). Both are in the Maximilian collection, but this larger specimen seems not to have been used in the description of C. variabilis.