The legend on the map is pretty easy to translate but I am not sure why the word continentais (translation obviously = continent or perhaps continental) is used in the legend. Is this a matter of the style of the Portuguese language? It would seem odd to use the word continent (or continental) in the legend of a map writing it in English.

Jeff



>>OK guys..

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>>Some of these rainbows are mine, and others are from friends. All have locality specific data yes.

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>>My Marajó rainbows were taken to Butantan (I live just across the street from Butantan) for identification, as I was really curious whether they were barbouri or not. They were identified as cenchria.

>>According to what they said, the snake formerly known as barbouri has those eyespots in the neck all fused forming a stripe, as you see in the assisi.

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>>As for the work from Paulo Passos about Epicrates. He separated all subspecies to the status of full species. barbouri and hygrophilus are no longer valid subspecies.

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>>The most curious thing is that barbouri was united with maurus. Whitch means that Marajó island has in fact 2 different rainbows.

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>>I have seen 30 or so rainbow boas from Marajó because I have a very good connection there, and they were all cenchria cenchria, including my newest rainbow that arrived just last week. Rainbows from that area tend to be dark, some being very unnatractive.

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>>The new species are:

>>Epicrates alvarezi

>>Epicrates maurus (maurus and old barbouri)

>>Epicrates cenchria (old cenchria and hygrophilus)

>>Epicrates assisi

>>Epicrates crassus

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>>Down here is the actual Epicrates map in Passos´s work:

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>>As for your question, Jeff, if we accept Paulo´s work, then there is no difference between the old hygrophilus and cenchria because they are now the same species.

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>>Im no taxonomist and really dont understand well their criteria to separate and unite species, but I like to keep the old subspecies, especially considering hygrophilus and cenchria.

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