One female (KU 57156) having 230 ventrals and 54 caudals was found on
the forest floor by day. This individual has a black snout with a white
bar across the nasals and prefrontals, a white spot in the middle of the
frontal, and a white band across the temporals and parietals that is
bordered posteriorly by a black band. There are 28 white and 28 red
rings on the body. The tips of the red scales are darkened. The black
rings between the white and red rings are not so expanded as to
interrupt the white rings dorsally as in _L. doliata abnorma_ as
identified by Stuart (1948:70). Locally this snake, like all red, black,
and white or yellow banded snakes, is called _coral_ or _coralillo_.
=Leptodeira frenata malleisi= Dunn and Stuart
Toocog, 1.
This specimen, a male having 173 ventrals and 69 caudals, was found
beneath the bark on a log in the forest. In life the dorsum was pinkish
tan with 36 chocolate brown blotches on the body; the venter was rosy
pink.
=Leptodeira septentrionalis polysticta= Günther
Chinajá, 3; Toocog, 11.
If numbers of specimens are indicative of abundance, this is the most
common snake in southern El Petén. All were found at night in the rainy
season. At a pond in the forest at Toocog these snakes were observed on
low vegetation, on the ground, and in the water. Evidently they
congregate at breeding choruses of frogs. One _Leptodeira_ contained a
_Smilisca baudini_ and another contained eggs of _Phyllomedusa
callidryas taylori_. The natives call this snake _nahuyaca_.
=Leptophis ahaetulla praestans= (Cope)
13 km. NNW of Chinajá, 1; 20 km. NNW of Chinajá, 1.
Both specimens were obtained from trees when they were felled. One
individual (KU 55716) has a body length of 1345 mm. and a total length
of 2035 mm. In life the entire snake was uniform bright green; the eye
was yellow. In preservative the dorsum is dark blue, and the venter is
green.
=Leptophis mexicanus mexicanus= Duméril, Bibron and Duméril
Chinajá, 1; 15 km. NW of Chinajá, 1; Sayaxché, 4.
All specimens came from low trees in the forest. The largest specimen is
a male having a body length of 724 mm. and a total length of 1236 mm. In
life the middorsum was a golden tan; the top of the head was a vivid
green. One individual had ingested a _Smilisca baudini_. The local name
is _bejuquillo_.
=Ninia sebae sebae= (Duméril, Bibron and Duméril)
Toocog, 1.
This specimen, a male having 144 ventrals and 55 caudals, was found
beneath bark on a log in the forest. There is a black band five scales
in length on the nape followed posteriorly by a red band six scales in
length and then by a complete black band one and one-half scales in
length. The rest of the body is dull red with 16 incomplete black bands
one to one and one-half scales in length on the anterior two-thirds of
the body.
=Oxybelis aeneus aeneus= (Wagler)
Chinajá, 1; 20 km. NNW of Chinajá, 1.
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