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NOTE ADDED IN PROOF: Paulo Passos kindly called my attention to Fernandes et al. (2002), in which Dipsas
latifasciatus is synonymized with D. polylepis. These authors could not resolve the status of D. polylepis
vis-à-vis D. latifrontalis.